Richard Lynch wrote: > But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!! > > PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it. > > That's why \ is an escape character in PHP. > > It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE. > > Some days I think PHP's escape character should have been | or > something, just so this topic wouldn't come up every damn month. All true, except you would then end up having problems with regexs like (this|or|that) :) Edin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php