when you are printing a variable such as
$bob="hey";
you do not need the quotation marks:
print $bob;
the stripslashes() function removes any slashes within the string, in this case there aren't any. doing
print "$bob";
will output a quotation mark as \" followed by the content of the string $bob followed by another quotation mark:
\"hey\"
you do not need the stripslashes, just remove the quotation marks from the output
