在回显php字符串时停止显示斜杠

I am using a PHP $_GET variable in my URL in PHP:

auth_code=QAJ-Z"YFl

but when i echo it in PHP echo $_GET["auth_code"] the slashes are still displaying before the any quotes

i tried using the PHP stripslashes function like this here:

stripslashes($_GET["auth_code"])

but its still displaying the slashes in the output on the page

i have checked and magic_quotes are currently OFF