On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Can someone interpret this preg string for me?
>
> /[^a-z0-9\\/_.:-]/i
>
> Here is what I can decipher. the match is case insensitive, and it excludes
> all letters, and numbers, and the characters _ . : and - (that is
> underscore, period
if its a parameter for some shell code, then you need to douple escape
the escapest.
If I remember correctly, if you need an escape char in a string, you
can put it in with \\, but if you need to put an escape char to a
string which will be executed via exec/system/etc. then you have to
put an esca
