Escaped characters in php style date (date.js) about locutus HOT 2 CLOSED

Good catch. Thanks, Haravikk!

I dug a little deeper. It appears a backslash can escape any character (not just [a-z] and \\). If there's no character to escape (passing just \\ or trailing a string with \\), then PHP drops it from the result. Taking all of this into consideration, I believe the fix to the RegExp should be: /\\?(.?)/gi No other code would need to change.

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I applied your fix Theriault as it appeared to work with the following test cases (not added as part of source given the already large number of examples) in addition to appearing to work normally with the regular flags:

alert(date('') === '')
alert(date('\\') === '')
alert(date('\\\\') === '\\')
alert(date('\\\\\\') === '\\')
alert(date('\\t') === 't')

Thanks, Haravikk, for bringing up a useful regex approach for other backslash use cases, and thanks to you both...

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