[RESOLVED] quotes in strpos needle

[Trilogen]

I've got a slight problem with searching a needle with strpos.

My problem is I want to search for a needle with quotes(") in it.

$page = @file_get_contents("full-story.htm");
//Looking for position of: Victor said "There won't be any new changes made"
$needle = "Victor said "There won't be any new changes made"";
$point = strpos($page,$needle);
		   if($point === false)
			echo "ERROR";
		   else
			echo $point;

As you can see the quotes are conflicting with the enclosing quotes. I've tried escaping with \ but I get ERROR meaning the slash could be messing up the needle.

Any suggestions? :bemused:

[drew010]

it works fine for me escaping quotes in the string. I just tested with

<?php 

$page = "This is a test, Victor said \"There won't be any new changes made\", so don't make any.";

$needle = "Victor said \"There won't be any new changes made\"";

$point = strpos($page,$needle);

if($point === false)
  echo "ERROR";
else
  echo $point; 

?>

[Trilogen]

The problem persist if I use $_GET, and I need to send the needle through form rather than keep changing it in the script.

 $page = @file_get_contents("full-story.htm"); 
//$_GET=['needle']=Victor said "There won't be any new changes made" 
$needle = $_GET=['needle'];
$point = strpos($page,$needle); 
           if($point === false) 
            echo "ERROR"; 
           else 
            echo $point; 

I tried

addslashes($_GET=['needle']);

but I still get errors, and I tried adding the slashes in the text field but same thing :bemused:

[Trilogen]

My bad!

I didn't know magic quotes was enabled there for it automatically added magic quotes to my GET variable. All I had to do was stripslashes instead of adding it. Works now :o