* Thus wrote Eli Gordon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> According to this doc:
> : if you want to match a backslash, you write "\\".
>
> This does not seem to be the case. In fact, you need three backslashes
> ("\\\"), not just two.
>
The context that the statement is used is describing syntax for
PCRE usage not php.
> For example, let's say we want to replace all instances of "\b" in the
> string "foo \b" with the word "bar":
>
> preg_replace('/\\b/', 'bar', 'foo \b');
> returns: "barfoobar \barbbar"
php passes '\b' to pcre, which treats that as a word boundry.
the 'foo \b' is untouched.
>
> preg_replace('/\\\b/', 'bar', 'foo \b');
> returns what we expect: "foo bar"
php passes '\\b' to pcre, and does what is defined in the section
you pointed out. 'foo \b' remains untouched.
Curt
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