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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:55:51 +0300
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928
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To: "Stas Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928
From: tzachi@zend.com ("Tzachi Tager")

The reason I'm doing this is because it seems that Windows parser looks =
for an odd number of '"' before the escaping, otherwise the escaping =
character is included in the outcome, for example:

string(25) "md "test ^& echo ^%foo^%""  =3D=3D> will output a directory =
called "test ^& echo ^%foo^%"

While:
string(31) "md "test "^&" echo "^%"foo"^%""" =3D=3D> will output a =
directory called "test & echo %foo%"

(I changed the php code and ran again, these are not the runs of the =
cmd.exe which does the escaping internally).
Which is what I wanted in the first place (and I know it looks ugly...).

Tzachi.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:stas@zend.com]=20
Sent: =E2 10 =E9=E5=EC=E9 2007 23:51
To: Tzachi Tager
Cc: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928

> /en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?mfr=3Dtrue , quoting: "You can use =
most
> characters as variable values, including white space. If you use the
> special characters <, >, |, &, or ^, you must precede them with the
> escape character (^) or quotation marks." - So all special characters
> will be replaced with "^<char>".

I think you are not entirely correct here. What the quote means is that=20
if you want foo&bar, you should do either "foo&bar" or foo^&bar - not=20
replace & with "^&".
--=20
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com