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MichaelvE
MichaelvE

Reputation: 2578

Output PHP string to show escaped characters

In PHP, is it at all possible to output the contents of a string to show any escaped characters that may be contained within the string? I get that the whole point of escaping characters is so that they aren't treated in the usual way. But I would still like to be able to view the raw contents of a string so I can see for myself exactly how characters like \n and \r, etc. are represented. Does PHP have a method for doing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1911

Answers (1)

axiac
axiac

Reputation: 72226

Use json_encode() to encode the string as JSON. The JSON encoding of strings (which is, in fact, JavaScript) is the same as the one used by PHP. Both JavaScript and PHP were inspired from C and they copied the notation of string literals from it.

Upvotes: 4

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