RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string
| From: | Liz Kimber | Date: | Tue, 16 May 2000 20:18:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string | ||
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Have you tried
$mytext=stripslashes($mytext);
??
This is designed for exactly that reason....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spallek, Heiko [mailto:heiko@dental.temple.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 21:06
> To: 'Liz Kimber'; stephan_schoell@student.ethz.ch
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > I havent been able to replicate your problem.. Originally you
> > wanted to
> > change double quotes to nothing, in which case
> > $mytext=str_replace("\"","",$mytext); works OK for me..
> I think I have tracked the problem of the additional "\" which
> should not be
> there. php3 seems to add to any text field submitted via an HTML
> form which
> contain double quotes a "\". Probably to prevent trouble when it gets
> further processed. Similar to the lite(mSQL) function
> msqlEncode($string).
>
> Thus, you could not see the problem which I had.
>
> Strange, any idea how you can trun off this feature?
>
> Heiko
>
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Spallek, Heiko [mailto:heiko@dental.temple.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 20:31
> > > To: 'stephan_schoell@student.ethz.ch'
> > > Cc: 'php-general@lists.php.net'
> > > Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Steff,
> > >
> > > > replace the string delimiting quotes (") by single quotes (')
> > > > and try the following modification of your statements:
> > > >
> > > > $quoteText = strtr($quoteText, '"', ' ');
> > > > $quoteText = str_replace('"', ' ', $quoteText);
> > > >
> > > > In general ' and " quotes have exactly the same meaning. But
> > > > be aware of the problems that could araise. Take notice of
> > > > the execution precedence of php, javascript/html and so on...
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > When I use it, however, both translate the content of a input
> > > text box from
> > > an HTML form which contains
> > >
> > > "Nothing is ..."
> > >
> > > into
> > > \Nothing is ...\
> > >
> > > which I don't like. I need the string just plain without the '\'.
> > >
> > > Any idea?
> > >
> > > Heiko
> > >
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