Re: Quoting "

[Andy Anderson <aanderson(at)amherst(dot)edu>]

Ah, slight ambiguity here. Perhaps this might best say "Any other  
character following a backslash is taken literally, and the backslash  
is removed."

Thanks,

-- Andy

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andy Anderson <aanderson(at)amherst(dot)edu> writes:
> > In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is
> > interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant
> > expression. This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in
> > along with the other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I
> > see that \" isn't documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1.
>
> Huh?  It says
>
>    Any other character following a backslash is taken literally.
>
> 			regards, tom lane