How do you strip out backslashes (/)from a var

[trigger]

I should get points for trying. I've grabbed some code, but I still see the "/"s in the echo!! Please help.

$bodytemp = $bodymatch[1];
			//start of function
			$search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",  // Strip out javascript
                 "'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",           // Strip out html tags
                 "'([\r\n])[\s]+'",                 // Strip out white space
                 "'&(quot|#34);'i",                 // Replace html entities
                 "'&(amp|#38);'i",
                 "'&(lt|#60);'i",
                 "'&(gt|#62);'i",
                 "'&(nbsp|#160);'i",
                 "'&(iexcl|#161);'i",
                 "'&(cent|#162);'i",
                 "'&(pound|#163);'i",
                 "'&(copy|#169);'i",
                 "'&#(\d+);'e");                    // evaluate as php

$replace = array ("",
                  "",
                  "\\1",
                  "\"",
                  "&",
                  "<",
                  ">",
                  " ",
                  chr(161),
                  chr(162),
                  chr(163),
                  chr(169),
                  "chr(\\1)");

$body1 = preg_replace ($search, $replace, $bodytemp);
$body2 = preg_replace("/[\\.\\,\\-\\+\\(\\)\\~\\!\\$\\%\\^\\&\\*\\@\\#\\<\\>\\?\\=\\_]/","",$body1); 
//end of function
			$body = strip_tags($body2);
			$content = stripslashes($body);
			echo "$content \n\n";

[laserlight]

um, but "/" is not a backslash.

[trigger]

I tried doing a

preg_replace("///","",$body1);

but it gives me a Warning: Unknown modifier '/' in the file

blah!!!! please help me! Its gonna drive me crazy!

[laserlight]

you might as well do
$str = str_replace('/', '', $str);
sort of thing.

[tbach2]

I think you can use other characters as the delimiter... not sure though. but try backslashing the forward slash:

preg_replace("/\//","",$body1);

ack, that didn't display correctly...

preg_replace("/\//","",$body1);