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Posted by Edin Kadibašić on 09/27/85 11:24
Richard Lynch wrote:
> But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!!
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> PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it.
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> That's why \ is an escape character in PHP.
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> It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE.
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> 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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