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Posted by ImOk on 06/12/06 12:55
Obviously a \ is an escape character in literal strings. E.g. \n \r \t
and so on.
So something somewhere is escaping the \ in the path name otherwise
your path name may not come across correctly.
How are you "checking" $field1 and are you passing it as a query
string? You need to be more specific.
wylbur37 wrote:
> When using a form with an input textbox such as the following ...
>
> <input type="text" name="field1" size=30>
>
> I discovered that when a backslash (\) is typed into the textbox,
> when I later check the value (in $field1), I get *two* backslashes.
> For example, If I type ...
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> c:\abc\xyz
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> the $field1 variable will then have a value of ...
>
> c:\\abc\\xyz
>
> Why does this happen?
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