special characters in PHP script...

[MuSQLe]

hi everybody,

has any of you an idea, how to print double backslashes in a script?

the idea is to generate a mysql query that looks for some windows unc path (on a db...).
so i need to look for a string like \\serverunc\path1\path2 and so on within the query.

now when i hand it a \\ it should recognize it as a single backslash, right!?
so \\\\ should generate a simple \\, shouldn't it?
but that won't work for some reason.
i know that there is an escaping difference between the utf-sets but when i call a query, i need to use single quotes ('').

so what can i do?


EDIT:
identified the question as mysql 'LIKE' operator problem...
the LIKE statement seems to not accept such syntax. i'll be looking for the correct syntax.