Hello, I have been trying to use fread to open a file, but it always escapes special characters. How do I open afile without it modifying my original file: $_POST[$fname] = fread($fileHandle, $_POST[$fname.'_size']); I use this and get slashes everywhere.This kills my REGex that gets coded next. Thanks Mike -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php