I would like to remove all back slashes from strings on my site. I do not wish to use strip_slashes(), because I want to keep forward slashes.
This is the code I am trying:
echo str_replace("\", "", "it\'s Tuesday!");
I want to find the backslash in any given string and remove it. But, this code is not working right.
Error:
syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
What could I be doing wrong?
The backslash is actually escaping the closing quote in your string.
Try echo str_replace("\\","","it\'s Tuesday!");
No sure why you are using str_replace to remove \ use
echo stripslashes("it\'s Tuesday!");
But if its just an example then
echo str_replace("\\","","it\'s Tuesday!");
Please Note that stripslashes only remove backslashes not forward
echo stripslashes("it\'s \\ \\ // Tuesday!");
Outputs
it's // Tuesday!
From the stripslashes() documentation:
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes (\\) are made into a single backslash (\).
So you shouldn't worry about the fwd. slashes.
Try and get the result:
$str = "it\'s Tuesday!";
$remove_slash = stripslashes($str);
print_r($remove_slash);
Output: it's Tuesday!
With:
echo str_replace("\'", "'", "it\'s Tuesday!");
// It's Tuesday!