Posted by "Ford, Mike" on 08/11/05 17:12

On 10 August 2005 22:19, Richard Lynch wrote:

> You can also, in some versions, "get away" with having \
> inside of "" so
> long as the following character isn't special:
> $string = "C:\homedirectory\uploadedfiles\\newfile.gif";
>
> Note that the 'n' character is special (newline) but 'h' and 'u' are
> not (I don't think) so this "should work"
>
> That doesn't make it Good Practice.

Especially as \u is likely to be a special sequence in the Unicode-enabled
PHP 6.0 when it comes out!

Cheers!

Mike

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