Re: Miserable escape string problem

intra_test@roibm.de wrote:
> Using this string:
> "{$var1: $var2}"
> ....of course it doesn't work as some might expect.
>
> But why in the name of [whatever, too many to list] doesn't this one
> below work?
> "\{$var1: $var2}"
>
> If \ is an escape character why does it also appear in the string output?
> Why does the above \ escape {$var1 and not only the {?
>
> Miserable.

because {$var1} is a valid syntactical construct?

try this instead:
'{'.$var1.': '.$var2.'}'

Kae