Hi gentle,
Guess I'm not explaining my problem well.
I don't have problems removing slashes, I have problems placing the
non-escaped text back into text that goes into an email I am sending.
I think instead of trying to place the variable holding this text
into an echo statement, I just store it all in a concatenated string
and place that in the email.
Thanks
On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:40 PM, MLC wrote:
> Try two preg_replace functions. Use the following patterns in the
> first to
> match:
>
> '/(\\\')/' replacing with a single quote.
>
> Use the following pattern for the second function:
>
> '/\\\"/' replacing with a double quote. If this one does not work,
> leave
> our the third backslash in the pattern.
>
> This should match only combinations of back slashes and single or
> double
> quote marks. You can run the function so that the result returns to
> the
> subject, as in:
>
> $subject = preg_replace('/\\\'/',"'",$subject);
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> gentlemike2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:php-
> objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of steve miller
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:17 AM
> To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: escaping characters
>
> But if I use stripslashes, won't I get something like
>
> echo "I'm "cool"";
>
> which would not work?
>
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Davide Baglieri wrote:
>
> > Just use stripslashes function.
> >
> > Il giorno 13/giu/2010, alle ore 16.09, steve miller
> <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ha scritto:
> >
> > > Oops; wasn't complete in my question!
> > >
> > > I don't have a problem in browsers because they ignore the
> backslash
> > > if I leave it in.
> > > The problem is when I am creating an email because the email
> > > applications don't ignore the backslash, but show it as \" or \'
> > so I
> > > have to remove them.
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:49 AM, steve miller wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have a simple but perplexing problem I could use some help
> with.
> > >>
> > >> I am storing user text input strings in mysql, and am escaping '
> > and
> > >> " with addslashes.
> > >> When I pull them out and use stripslashes, I sometimes get errors
> > >> because I don't know if they have a ' or a " in the string.
> > >>
> > >> Example 1
> > >> String is: I'm cool
> > >> This works: echo "I'm cool";
> > >> This does not: echo 'I'm cool';
> > >>
> > >> Example 2
> > >> String is: You are "cool"
> > >> This works: echo 'You are "cool"';
> > >> This does not: echo "You are "cool"";
> > >>
> > >> Example 3
> > >> String is: I'm "cool"
> > >> This does not work: echo "I'm "cool"";
> > >> This does not work: echo 'I'm "cool"';
> > >>
> > >> So, how do I output strings of unknown content?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for any guidance.
> > >>
> > >> Steve
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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