| Posted by Edin Kadibašić on 06/19/85 11:24 
Richard Lynch wrote:> But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!!
 >
 > PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it.
 >
 > That's why \ is an escape character in PHP.
 >
 > It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE.
 >
 > Some days I think PHP's escape character should have been | or
 > something, just so this topic wouldn't come up every damn month.
 
 All true, except you would then end up having problems with regexs like
 (this|or|that) :)
 
 Edin
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