note 89751 modified in function.trim by danbrown

From: Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:10:26 +0000
Subject: note 89751 modified in function.trim by danbrown
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small fix for the trimString function to proof against slash and backslash: <?php function trimString($input, $string){ $input = trim($input); $string = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $string); $string = str_replace('/', '\\/', $string); $startPattern = "/^($string)+/i"; $endPattern = "/($string)+$/i"; return trim(preg_replace($endPattern, '', preg_replace($startPattern,'',$input))); } ?> --was-- small fix for the trimString function to proof against slash and backslash: function trimString($input, $string){ $input = trim($input); $string = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $string); $string = str_replace('/', '\\/', $string); $startPattern = "/^($string)+/i"; $endPattern = "/($string)+$/i"; return trim(preg_replace($endPattern, '', preg_replace($startPattern,'',$input))); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php

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