On Tue 15 Sep 2009, Nick Kew wrote: > > /\\bcity\\b/ works on my localhost (Debian Linux with Apache > > 2.2.13-1), > > Good. Mystery solved (though I have to confess I'm a little > surprised you need that in the context). Here is the piece of code that (I believe) eats the backslashes (mod_include.c: get_ptoken()). token->value is the start of the string, p the end. shift is the number of unescaped backslashes found in the string. apr_size_t len = p - token->value - shift; char *c = apr_palloc(ctx->dpool, len + 1); p = token->value; token->value = c; while (shift--) { const char *e = ap_strchr_c(p, '\\'); /* move e to the next backslash */ memcpy(c, p, e-p); /* copy up to the backslash excluding it */ c += e-p; /* now c points to the end of the destination string */ *c++ = *++e; /* copy there the char that comes *after* the '\' and forget about the '\' */ len -= e-p; p = e+1; } if (len) { memcpy(c, p, len); } c[len] = '\0'; Torsten -- Need professional mod_perl support? Just hire me: torsten.foertsch@xxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx