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[TECK]

INSERT INTO bbcode VALUES (NULL,'b','<b>\\\\4</b>','Bold','The [b] tag allows you to write text bold',0)what the 4 lines represent? thanks.

[TaP]

mabey just an example?

[Admin]

\\4 - used in regular expressions (when in double quotes; in single quotes only \4) to denote the 4th parenthesized expression.

In the query there are four slashes, because it it was \\4, PHP would delete one of the slashes (In double quotes, \\ = \, so to get \\ you must use \\\\).

[TECK]

i understand now. thanks firefly.