note 76665 added to function.preg-replace

I got problem echoing text that contains double-quotes into a text field. As it confuses value option. I use this function below to match and replace each pair of them by smart quotes. The last one will be replaced by a hyphen(-). It works for me. function smart_quotes($text) { $pattern = '/"((.)*?)"/i'; $text = preg_replace($pattern,"“\\1”",stripslashes($text)); $text = str_replace("\"","-",$text); $text = addslashes($text); return $text; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 203.162.33.222 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/76665 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/76665 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/76665 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php