hi, i am reading data from text file and when it reads it adds slaches like that "Birdy birdy in the sky, left a poopie in my eye. Me don\'t care, me don\'t cry, me just happy that a cow can\'t fly!!" how can i remove these slaches? i am using this piece of code <? $sms=file("sms.txt"); $number_of_sms = count($sms); if ($number_of_sms == 0){ echo "<p><font color=\"#FFFF00\"><strong>There is no sms have been submited to this section yet</strong></font><br>"; } for ($i=0; $i<$number_of_sms; $i++){ $line=explode("\t", $sms[$i]); echo "<p><font color=\"#FFFF00\" size=\"2 px\">".$line[0]." <br></font>". " <br><font color=\"#CCFFFF\" size=\"2 px\">Thanks to ".$line[1]. </font></p>"; echo "<font color=\"red\">--------------------------------------</font>" } ?> waiting for reply thanks a lot