Title: Avoiding backslash processing in textarea
Last modified: July 4, 2020

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# Avoiding backslash processing in textarea

 *  [recursive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/recursive/)
 * (@recursive)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-backslash-processing-in-textarea/)
 * I searched but could not find anything about this. Is there a way to avoid backslash
   characters being stripped out of a textarea in the resulting email? Or is this
   something built into WordPress core?
 * Our contact form includes a textarea, such as:
    `[textarea message placeholder"
   Your message"]`
 * However, the email we receive has backslashes stripped out. For example, if the
   user enters: Documents\FolderA, we receive DocumentsFolderA. This is a problem
   for Windows file paths.
 * Any help is appreciated.

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-backslash-processing-in-textarea/#post-13071140)
 * No, you can’t do this. It is built into PHP. You can leave backslashes by using
   double-backslash like `Documents\\FolderA`, but it won’t be a solution. How about
   suggesting users use normal slash (`/`) instead of backslash in a file path?

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