How can backslashes in file paths cause syntax errors in PHP and what is the correct way to handle them?

Backslashes in file paths can cause syntax errors in PHP because backslashes are used as escape characters in PHP strings. To handle this issue, you can either replace backslashes with forward slashes in the file path or use the PHP function `addslashes()` to properly escape the backslashes. 

$file_path = "C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\example\\file.txt";
$file_path = str_replace('\\', '/', $file_path);
// OR
$file_path = addslashes("C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\example\\file.txt");

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