a bit help needed with "\"

Discussion in 'PHP' started by saqistation, Dec 9, 2009.

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  1. #1
    hi dear
    i am having trouble with follwing statement.
    if the string contains \ then print slash

    but it don't work.
     
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  2. mastermunj

    mastermunj Well-Known Member

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    unable to understand.

    however to handle slash problem, you can use php function addslashes();
     
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  3. Christian Little

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    Lookup preg_match on PHP.net. That's the function you'll need to use since \ is a special regex character.
     
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    tguillea Active Member

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    If I understand right, your problem is that you want to output the character "\" in PHP.

    but, PHP uses the \ to escape characters, so if you want to output a "\" you need to escape it with a \

    ex:
    
//to output the string "go to C:\Windows\Fonts to find arial" then it would be as follows:
echo 'go to C:\\Windows\\Fonts to find arial';
    PHP:
     
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