Just escape the \ with a single escape character. eg. your string
'\0P Z\0<Îê˜Úµ' would end up as '\\0P Z\\0<Îê˜Úµ' - each \ simply
escapes the backslash following it. If you add two backslashes, you end
up with one too many which is what the error is referring to.
..micahel..
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:59, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> Im trying to move some binary strings from mysql to postgresql,
> and the binary strings has escape chars '\' in them.
> I was told to double escape them like so -> '\\\'
> Here is what Im trying ->
>
> $data = '\0P Z\0<Îê˜Úµ'; // This is a representation from an mysql dump
> $data2 = str_replace('/\', '/\/\/\', $data);
>
> Im getting ->
> Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1
> I guess my str_replace() isn't correct.
>
> Am I going about the right way to double escape them.
> Thanks.
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