Posted by Frank Arensmeier on 02/24/05 10:14

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

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