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[Anon]

Can someone please help!

I'm new to php3 and I'm still tring to find out how php3 does things I'm used to with cgi. Can someone please help me with this problem.

I need to remove any " in a text field once submitted. I don't want the user to remove it, the script should do it without the user knowing.

Therefore if this was entered.....

She said "hello"

It will change to.....

She said hello

Thanks

Steve

[Anon]

$inputfieldname = ereg_replace(""", " ", $inputfieldname);

for PERL syle reg exp:
http://www.php.net/manual/ref.pcre.php

[Anon]

The same without ereg:

$inputfieldname=implode("",explode("\"",$text));

JBL

[Anon]

Thanks, but nether of these work!

It leaves a backslash \ where there was a ".

Any other ideas???

Thanks!

Steve

[Anon]

if the "She said..." line is in $line:

$line = ereg_replace("\"", "", $line);

That's all 🙂

--Ryan

[Anon]

It doesn't want to work.....

If the input is....

She said "hello".

after passing through

$line = ereg_replace("\"", "", $line);

it returns....

She said \hello.

Thanks
Steve

[Anon]

Works for me, here's my test code:

<?
$line = 'She said "hello"';
$line = ereg_replace("\"", "", $line);
echo("$line\n");
?>

[ryan@score ryan]$ php -q test.php
She said hello
[ryan@score ryan]$

--Ryan

[Anon]

Did the string comes from a text field ?

if so php quote the string with \

use 'stripslashes' function to strip slashes before removing the ".
Then either ereg or implode/explode method will work

JBL

[Anon]

Thanks.... thats sorted out my problem.

I've also combined it all into one line....

$input = ereg_replace("\"", "", stripslashes ($input));

Thanks again.... it works a treat.

Steve