replace slashes with more slashes?

[dkirk]

I am having a bit of trouble trying to double up on slashes in a file

path. What I am trying to do is very similar to the code below:

 

<?

$var = "\\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";

$new = preg_replace("\\", "\\\", "$var");

?>

 

 

Code above produces the following error:

 

 

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot

\pages\replace.php on line 12

 

 

In the end, $new needs to be: \\\\wusais\\Intranets\\Intranets\\fpdb\

\pdf\\weinig\\00505882.pdf

 

 

but it seems to be very difficult replacing slashes.

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tommyboy123x]

The \\ are canceling each other out, and then the third \ removes the quotation mark and so PHP reads it as an unexpected variable (no closing quotation mark)

 

on a side note, i really prefer str_replace over preg_replace

 

I think it should be something like

 

$var = "\\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";
$new = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $var);

 

Basically look at the error your getting.  Its not saying the url is bad, just that theres an unexpected variable.  I'd recommend getting phpdesigner or something that shows different colors for functions, variables, strings, etc.  PHPdesigner is free too :-)

[dkirk]

I just tried:

 

<?

$var = "\\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";

$new = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", "$var");

?>

 

and received:

 

\\wusais\\Intranets\\Intranets\\fpdb\\pdf\\weinig05882.pdf

 

almost there?

[Fadion]

<?php
$var = "\\wusais\Intranets\Intranets\fpdb\pdf\weinig\00505882.pdf";
$new = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $var);
echo $new; //it prints out: \\wusais\\Intranets\\Intranets\\fpdb\\pdf\\weinig05882.pdf
?>

 

The starting double slashes in the $var string will be considered as one as the first escapes the second, so i u really want four slashes in the beginning of $new u can add them manually:

 

$new = "\\\\" . $new;

 

Also the adress ure using in the $var string is a windows path containing "\", while in a real envoirment ull have paths containing "/".

[dkirk]

It will be udes on a company intranet, all file paths are coming from a database and all are windows paths. Adding th four slashes at the begining is no problem but whats going on in the end?

 

weinig05882.pdf

 

[tommyboy123x]

I can't get the same results your getting...

 

That doesn't seem to make any sense though, because the "|" symbol is nowhere in the code

[cooldude832]

trying making them into variables

[dkirk]

My problem is that the string coming from the database as variable

with 2 slashes in the front and 1 slash between each directory. All of the

file paths coming from the db are structured this way and there are

thousands of records. Once the variable comes from the db, I am passing

it on to a javascript. If I pass the variable as is, the script will not work but if I double up

on the slashes everything works fine. So, I have to take the file path

that is coming out of the db and double up on the slashes. Using only

php, everything works fine with the slashes the way they are.