Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com> writes:
> When I moved up to 8.1.2 one of my PHP programs appears to be broken,
> I am getting backslashes in my data that I don't want.
> Investigating further, I have found some inconsistencies in how verion
> 8.1.2 handles data with backslashes in it:
This has not changed from prior versions. It looks like you are
neglecting to allow for the fact that backslash is an escape character
both at the string-literal level and at the regex-pattern level.
Therefore you must write twice as many backslashes as you normally
would write in a regex pattern. In particular, '\\\\' to match a
literal backslash.
regards, tom lane