note 104204 deleted from function.stripslashes by danbrown

Note Submitter: Kent ---- Haha.. I love the example here. $s = "Let\'s post a plug for O\'Rielly"; Why anyone would use stripslashes to read this string is beyond me! In this case, the backslashes are useless since they are escaping single quotes in a double quoted string. But even if converting it to: $s = 'Let\'s post a plug for O\'rielly'; It would only act as a signal to the php interpreter that ' is not the end of the string... the string in memory WOULD NOT HAVE THE SLASHES. * You actually need the slashes in the string being stripped... it's stripping the slashes... no slashes, no stripping (er.. uh whatever) Try: $a = "\\\"This needs strip slashes\\\""; print $a . '<br />' . stripslashes($a); But watch out: You want to have a reasonable amount of certainty that the string was escaped (adding slashes) or you can corrupt your data.