Re: Stripping Single Quotes
| From: | CC Zona | Date: | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:30:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Stripping Single Quotes | ||
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In article <3AB122F3.1F28CA27@techscribe.com>, rebol@techscribe.com (Elan)
wrote:
> 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?
If there's no chance that the string could also contain legit single-quotes
(such as as an apoostrophe), you can simply use str_replace().
Otherwise, either str_replace() with strpos() -- to search/replace only on
2nd char and 2nd-to-last character -- or good ol' preg_replace() by itself.
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CC