replacing slashes

[Anon]

hi, what could be wrong with this:

$strNew = str_replace("\\","\",$_GET["path"]);

i want to replace two slashes with a single one.

thanks

al

[Anon]

Since the backslash is a special character, you need to represent each backslash as a doubled backslash. Therefore the search should have four backslashes, not three. Your example should generate a syntax error.

[Anon]

this will replace one of your 2 slashes with nothingness

$word = str_replace(("\") , "",$word);

[Anon]

You sure? I think it would replace both of the two slashes with nothingness (why the extra ()?).

Steve's got the right answer there.