Re: escaping characters

[steve miller <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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