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converting special symbols to escaped characters and vice versa

Say I wanted to convert strings like '\n' to "\n" or '\r' to "\r".
Without using a bunch of successive str_replaces, how might I go about
doing that? Is there some built-in PHP function that'd let me do that?

Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

Jul 17 '05 #1
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