Stupid problem

[Anon]

I wrote in PHP app. for adding news to my website. The text is saved into .DAT files. THe problem is with "" and | characters.
It doesn't want to display |, and "" diplays but with escape character .
So if you want to post something like:
"I ate an apple" it wil print:
\"I ate an apple\"
It's horrible... help me please...

[Anon]

It seems like your script that writes the data to the .dat file is adding slashes to your .dat database file to make it safe for storage. I am assuming you are not using mysql.

If the value of e.g. $x is equal to "I ate an apple"

DO this..
<?php
$x = stripslashes($x);
echo("$x");
?>
This should successfully print out "I ate an apple" without those nasty slashes. I hope this helps.