Well, if I were doing this in my own application, I would have tested my solution first and realized the mistake. You're right, though. Heh.

If you ask me, I hate the fact that back-slashes are special at all within single-quoted strings, precisely for this problem. People make the assumption that single-quotes mean no interpolation is done, that they are safe putting whatever they want in the string. Backslashes are essentially ignored/safe except in the case of a second backslash or a single-quote itself. I might argue that backslashes be totally ignored/unspecial in a single-quoted string. Injecting single quotes might be done by doubling them up.