Hey, I'm getting input from a form in html, and then writing that information to a file. Now, when a ' (and i suppose a " as well) is typed in... into the file \' appears. I understand why it is doing this... but is there a way so it DOESN'T do that.. I am sure there's some function that removes it or something but I don't know what it is. I just iddn't want to have to loop through the whole file and remove occurences of \' and things like that. Any help is appreciated.
I'm hoping there's a function that can remove it from the string so i can do:

1)Get text from input box
2)remove the \' and stuff
3)write to file

thanks

sure, you can use the str_replace function. here's an example

$my_str = "hello. isn\\\'t it annoying to see \\\' in my file?!";
// now my string literally is:
// "hello. isn\'t it annoying to see \' in my file"
//
// i assume you'd like to turn a \' into just a '
//
// you can do this with one call to str_replace

$my_str = str_replace("\\\'", "\'", $my_str);

// or if you want to take out the \' altogether, use
// this line instead

$my_str = str_replace("\\\'", "", $my_str);

hope this helps,
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: Hey, I'm getting input from a form in html, and then writing that information to a file. Now, when a ' (and i suppose a " as well) is typed in... into the file \' appears. I understand why it is doing this... but is there a way so it DOESN'T do that.. I am sure there's some function that removes it or something but I don't know what it is. I just iddn't want to have to loop through the whole file and remove occurences of \' and things like that. Any help is appreciated.
: I'm hoping there's a function that can remove it from the string so i can do:
:
: 1)Get text from input box
: 2)remove the \' and stuff
: 3)write to file
:
: thanks
:

couldn't you just use stripslashes ()?

: Hey, I'm getting input from a form in html, and then writing that information to a file. Now, when a ' (and i suppose a " as well) is typed in... into the file \' appears. I understand why it is doing this... but is there a way so it DOESN'T do that.. I am sure there's some function that removes it or something but I don't know what it is. I just iddn't want to have to loop through the whole file and remove occurences of \' and things like that. Any help is appreciated.
: I'm hoping there's a function that can remove it from the string so i can do:
:
: 1)Get text from input box
: 2)remove the \' and stuff
: 3)write to file
:
: thanks
:


both of you are correct. Damn thanks a lot