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.NET PostSubmitter sends backslashes

Hi, I'm using C# to send JSON to a PHP-Script, like this: string json = "{"; json += "\"prop\":\"some text\""; json += "}"; PostSubmitter post = new PostSubmitter(); post.Url = "http://localhost/synch/notein.php"; post.Type = PostSubmitter.PostTypeEnum.Post; post.PostItems.Add("note", json); post.Post(); Of course I'll have to escape...

As3 split strangeness

Hello coders, Super simple example: var Path:String="E:\SWF Security\Acess Current Path\Access SWF URL.swf" var Path1:Array = Path.split("\\") // Split using the backslash as delimiter (No limit the number of returned tokens) trace(Path1) What do you expect path1 to be ? E: ? No its E:SWF SecurityAcess Current PathAccess SWF URL....

Why is '\x' invalid in Python?

I was experimenting with '\' characters, using '\a\b\c...' just to enumerate for myself which characters Python interprets as control characters, and to what. Here's what I found: \a - BELL \b - BACKSPACE \f - FORMFEED \n - LINEFEED \r - RETURN \t - TAB \v - VERTICAL TAB Most of the other characters I tried, '\g', '\s', etc. just eva...

C# - retrieve file path from config file - @ doesn't do it's magic

Hi guys, I'm currently working on a web service that retrieves an XML message, archives it and then processes it further. The archive folder is read from the Web.config. This is what the archive method looks like private void Archive(System.Xml.XmlDocument xmlDocument) { try { string directory = System.Configuration.Con...

how to replace the backslash in php to xml?

I'm trying to create a xml file from php.... it is not work properly... when i eentered \notepad\text ,it creates in xml file as otepad ext.... what's the solution for this problem? can i use any function to this? ...

Escape doube and single backslashes in a string in Ruby

Hello. I'm trying to access a network path in my ruby script on a windows platform in a format like this. \\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\ Now If I try to use this as a path, it won't work. Single backslashes are not properly escaped for this script. path = "\\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\" d = Dir...

Safely escaping and reading back a file path in ruby

I need to save a few informations about some files. Nothing too fancy so I thought I would go with a simple one line per item text file. Something like this : # write io.print "%i %s %s\n" % [File.mtime(fname), fname, Digest::SHA1.file(fname).hexdigest] # read io.each do |line| mtime, name, hash = line.scanf "%i %s %s" end Of course...

Converting rich text that contains backslashes to plain text or html

I am trying to convert a rich text string to plain text or html. I am currently using the RichTextBox.Text feature which works correctly for almost all cases except when the text contains backslashes then some of the text is stripped out as the converter believes that it is part of the rtf formatting. Does anyone have any ideas of how to...

Replacing backslashes in Python strings

I have some code to encrypt some strings in Python. Encrypted text is used as a parameter in some urls, but after encrypting, there comes backslashes in string and I cannot use single backslash in urllib2.urlopen. I cannot replace single backslash with double. For example: print cipherText '\t3-@\xab7+\xc7\x93H\xdc\xd1\x13G\xe1\xfb' ...

Windows shell string operations (changing backslash to slash)

Hi there, I need to write a script that takes the current path (%~dp0), transforms backslashes into forward slashes and passes it further to some command. Due to the environment I'm working in the only option that I have is windows shell (not Powershell where the issue would not a problem). Is it even possible to do that? ...

NSString Backslash escaping

Hi, I am working on an iPhone OS application that sends an xml request to a webservice. In order to send the request, the xml is added to an NSString. When doing this I have experienced some trouble with quotation marks " and backslashes \ in the xml file, which have required escaping. Is there a complete list of characters that need to...

cygwin : pdksh(5.2.14-3) doesn't support backslash path (\)

as an replacement for ksh under cygwin, pdksh might be the only choice. but look like there have a bug for cygwin : pdksh(5.2.14-3) to support backslash path (\). it will swallow the \ : $ cd .\access pdksh: cd: /cygdrive/e/.access - No such file or directory After search on the internet, the same problem solved for other platform. b...

preg_match cannot find backslash

preg_match(”[\\]“, $somedatawithbackslash); throws exception: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending matching delimiter \’]\’ found preg_match(’/\\\\/’, $somedatawithbackslash); throws exception: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending matching delimiter \’]\’ found preg_match('#\\#, $somedatawithbackslas...

autogenerated sql code: single backslash as an escape character is failing.

Hello everyone, I'm querying an oracle 9i database with: SELECT * FROM table WHERE column LIKE '%' || ‘someText’ || '%' ESCAPE '\'; and it fails with the error "escape character must be character string of length 1" ( ORA-01425 error), while succeeding in an oracle express 10g database. Making it a double backslash (ESCAPE '\\') solv...

[Javascript] How to replace strings from an array

I'm working on a piece of code that uses regex expressions to do a find/replace for emoticons in a chat. However, I want to use the same array of values and output them as a reference. The regex works fine for my searches, but when I tried to do a replace on the regex search string before I output it for my help, I still end up with a s...

trying to replace "\" char using javascript for a json parser

so I have the following line of javascript: YAHOO.lang.JSON.parse(txt) where text is a string that is pulled from the database. This is an example of one of the problem strings I'm getting back: 5000\25\30% The JSON parser is throwing syntax errors on the / character as far as I can tell. I looked through threads here and most of t...

PHP Regex No Backslash

So I hadn't done any regexps for a while, so I thought I'd brush up on my memory. I'm trying to convert a string like a*b*c into a<b>b</b>c. I've already gotten that working, but now I want to keep a string like a\*b\*c from turning into a\<b>b\</b>c, but rather, into a*b*c. Here's the code I'm using now: $string = preg_replace("/\...