php auto'cally escapes " in preg_replace

[Anon]

Is there a way to prevent PHP automatically escapes " in a preg_replace with eval modifier. That is, if I do this:

preg_replace("/(.+)/e", "print('\1')", 'he says, "ah."');

PHP prints:

he says, \"ah.\"

Note that PHP seems to be only escaping ", not ', $, |, etc. I know this is done for convenience or something. But I have to preg_replace it again to change \" back to ".

[chaostik]

I suspect that strip_slashes() would be a much faster function than a second preg_replace and would enable a much prettier line of code:

strip_slashes( preg_replace("/(.+)/e", "print('\1')", 'he says, "ah."') );

All the best,

Louis

[Anon]

Yeah, but it will strip backslashes too.