backslashes not appearing in board posts

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Post 1 by 404 to the 508 (Generic Zoner) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 11:44:11

It is unclear to me if you have attempted to address this issue as of this posting, but if you haven't, I thought I'd bring it up. When anyone writes a post on a board, the backslashes don't show up. When I preview the post, they are there just fine but when I actually post the message, they are no where to be seen.
This is quite frustrating when people are writing things like c: backslash windows backslash and all they see is c:windowsSystem32... I will write that out with backslashes: c:windowssystem32. They show up in the preview but not in the actual post.

Post 2 by purple penguin (Don't you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 16:45:22

c:/?

Post 3 by purple penguin (Don't you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 16:46:19

Oh wrong slash.
test to see if / works.

Post 4 by Wraith (Prince of Chaos) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 16:57:18

It's a Php issue. I believe you can insert a backslash (\) by escaping it with another backslash, much as you would in C. For example: \\.

If that doesn't work, you can also use ampersand/character entity enumeration, like this: &#92 (92 is the ASCII value for the backslash symbol).
Kai

Post 5 by Albanac (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 17:19:08

Interestingly though, when you escaped it kai we got two of 'em. The php thing would've been my guess also though

Post 6 by Wraith (Prince of Chaos) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 19:48:43

You were supposed to see two of them, Simon. I was demonstrating how to actually write the backslash (I.E.: write two consecutive backslashes to make one single one appear). I actually had to write four backslashes to make those two backslashes show up as they did.
Kai

Post 7 by jmbauer (Technology's great until it stops working.) on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2008 20:23:13

thus, c:\windows\system32 should display correctly. A simple rule of thumb: for every backslash you want, type two.

Jim

Post 8 by purple penguin (Don't you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.) on Thursday, 27-Mar-2008 17:24:37

Nobody pointed out that I keep using the wrong slash.

Post 9 by TylerK (This site is so "educational") on Saturday, 29-Mar-2008 8:41:41

The following will display correctly:
HKEY_Local_Machine\system\currentControlSet\Control
The following will not display correctly:
HKEY_Local_MachinesystemCurrentControlSetControl