PHP: stripcslashes - Manual (original) (raw)

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stripcslashes — Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes()

Description

Parameters

string

The string to be unescaped.

Return Values

Returns the unescaped string.

Examples

Example #1 stripcslashes() example

`<?php

var_dump

(stripcslashes('I'd have a coffee.\nNot a problem.') === "I'd have a coffee.
Not a problem."); // true
?>`

Found A Problem?

rafayhingoro[at]hotmail[dot]com ¶

8 years ago

stripcslashes does not simply skip the C-style escape sequences \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t and \v, but converts them to their actual meaning. 

So
<?php
stripcslashes('\n') == "\n"; //true;

$str = "we are escaping \r\n"; //we are escaping

?>