Dagdamor wrote: > I checked the documentation. It says that only "\n", "\r" and "\t" sequences > (I count only alphanumeric ones) are special, there is nothing about \f or \v. > The documentation clearly says that all other sequences are not special and > the backslash becomes part of the string. It also says: "usually, there is no > need to escape the backslash itself", in other words, escaping the backslash > only when necessary is allowed and encouraged.
The documentation probably should be fixed. Also, \f and \v have been documented; your mirror probably isn't up to date. See: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/en/language/types.xml?r1=1.189&r2=1.190&diff_format=u -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier <http://htmlpurifier.org> Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php