Stripping Single Quotes

Hi, I have a string, "'abc'". How do I convert it to "abc" (i.e. how do I strip the embedded single quotes) with a minimum of overhead? (In case you'r wondering: I created the quoted string to store it in MySQL, now I want to display the same string in a Webpage. Usually the strings I display do not have embedded single quotes, and I add the single quotes when I output the string printf("<input type='text' value='%s'>", $value); That works well enough for strings that don't already have embedded quotes. But when they do I want to get rid of them quickly and easily, otherwise I get ...value = ''some value''> and Netscape doesn't display the value embedded in two single quote characters). TIA, Elan