Echoing path removes character and slash

christinab

Hi,

When I try to echo this path with file, it prints correctly. /www/uploads/Reimagine.jpg

$local = getcwd()."\Reimagine.jpg";
echo $local; // prints C:\wamp\www\uploads\Reimagine.jpg

However, if I try to echo the same exact path, only with the file name as a lower case character, the result is a space with missing slash and first character.

$local = getcwd()."\reimagine.jpg";
echo $local; // prints C:\wamp\www\uploads eimagine.jpg

Why does the case make such a difference?
I can escape the last slash and have it correctly display.

I am using PHP 5.3.4 with the latest WAMP stack installed.

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

Welcome to PHPBuilder! When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

As for your problem, you're using double quoted strings, which means that the backslash has a special meaning (e.g. "\n" gets translated into the new line character).

Either escape your backslash, so that PHP knows you want a literal backslash and aren't starting a special escape sequence, or switch to using single quotes as the string delimiter, since PHP doesn't look for these escape sequences in such strings.

See the manual page for a [man]string[/man] for more info/examples.