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Posted by Frank Arensmeier on 02/24/05 11:46
Thank you Stian!
In Swedish they say "Sometimes you can't see the forest by all the
trees."
/frank
2005-02-24 kl. 09.45 skrev Stian Berger:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:14:32 +0100, Frank Arensmeier
> <frank.arensmeier@nikehydraulics.se> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> I was wondering if you could help me with a little problem I ran into
>> some days ago.
>>
>> In my database I have some information about file paths. Originally,
>> those paths come from a Windows Excel spreadsheet and look like "..\1
>> PDF Filer\65051.PDF". In my PHP code I try to do two things:
>>
>> 1) replace ".." with a string like "file://server/folder"
>> 2) replace all "\" characters with "/".
>>
>> The PHP code looks something like:
>>
>> $path_to_file = "..\1 PDF Filer\65051.PDF";
>> $things_to_look_for = array("..", "\");
>> $things_to_replace_with = array("file://server/folder", "/");
>> $link = str_replace($things_to_look_for, $things_to_replace_with,
>> $path_to_file);
>>
>> The big problem is the character "\" which, if I got it right, in
>> UNICODE is used for things like expressing line breaks ('\n' or
>> something like this). The code above is resulting in the following
>> error massage: "Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in
>> /xxx/xxx/xxx/TMPz06yoces6o.php on line 2."
>>
>> Is there a simple solution for this problem?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank
>
>
> You are escaping the last quote, meaning that the rest of your code is
> "quoted". What you need to do is to escape the escape character.
>
> $path_to_file = addslashes("..\1 PDF Filer\65051.PDF");
> $things_to_look_for = array("..", "\\");
>
> You should use addslashes() or similar on you're path name, as some
> escaped characters have certain meanings. \n for example means a new
> line character, while \\n on the other hand means \ followed by n.
>
> Manual: http://www.php.net/types.string
>
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