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PHP Escape character

I'm using PHP environment and I have a problem in displaying data on form of escape characters.

example:

how could i display a double quote " if my string data is \"

same with, how could i display a backslash \ if my string data is \\

Solution

  • To remove \ characters that are used as an escape characters, use the stripslashes function.

    david@raston ~ $ cat tmp/test.php
<?php

$raw = 'double slash \\\\ escaped quote \"';
print $raw;
print "\n";
print stripslashes($raw);
?>

david@raston ~ $ php tmp/test.php
double slash \\ escaped quote \"
double slash \ escaped quote "