On 3/15/2010 3:30 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:35 -0400, Al Rider wrote:
On 3/15/2010 3:11 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:03 -0400, Al wrote:
Anyone have a regex pattern for deleting multiple backslashes e.g., \\\\\\\
I pretty good with regex; but, be damned if I can delete them with preg_replace()
I've tried "\\\\" as the manual says
preg_replace("/\\\\/", '', $str);
preg_replace("/(\\\\)+/", '', $str);
preg_replace("/\x5C/", '', $str);
preg_replace("/\\x5c/", '', $str);
And lots of others.
stripslashes() and stripcslashes() are limited.
What about this:
$str = 'text\\dfnfg\\dhdsg\\\\';
echo preg_replace('/\\\{2,}/', '', $str);
I think what was catching you out was that you were escaping the \
once for the regex, but then it needed it again because it was in a
single quoted string, meaning 3 slashes in total. Took me a little
while to figure that out as well!
The {2,} part just tells it to only remove the slashes where they
occur in runs of two or more.
I agree, it should work; but, it doesn't.
Most everything that looks reasonable works in The Regex Coach,
including you suggestion.
I'm starting to think there is a bug in the regex engine; haven't
looked yet. It's doubtful though because the bug would screw existing
code.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
I tried the code I just gave you and it's working, so I'm not sure now
what issue you're having with it?
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Thanks ever so much guys. Sometimes it's helpful when someone else confirms
something must work.
Problem was that I had a series of cleanup and security checks on a POST array
and inadvertently used the original POST array in one of the steps following the
backslash remove step, so obviously it didn't work.
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