Al wrote:
> Anyone have a regex pattern for deleting multiple backslashes e.g., \\\\\\\
>
> I pretty good with regex; but, be damned if I can delete them with
> preg_replace()
>
> I've tried "\\\\" as the manual says
>
> preg_replace("/\\\\/", '', $str);
>
> preg_replace("/(\\\\)+/", '', $str);
>
> preg_replace("/\x5C/", '', $str);
>
> preg_replace("/\\x5c/", '', $str);
>
> And lots of others.
>
> stripslashes() and stripcslashes() are limited.
>
>
>
Might I ask, how are the multiple slashes getting generated in the first place?
Where is the data coming from?
Next question would be: Do you want to completely remove all instances of
multiple backslashes? Or, do you want to replace all instances of multiple
backslashes with a single backslash?
I would try something like this:
<plaintext><?php
$in = '\\\as\\\\asdf\\\asdf\asdf\\\\\asdf\\\\\asdf';
# to remove all backslashes, us this
echo preg_replace('|[\\\\]+|', '', $in).PHP_EOL;
# to remove all backslashes, us this
echo str_replace('\\', '', $in).PHP_EOL;
# to replace consecutive instances of backslashes with a single backslash
echo preg_replace('|[\\\\]+|', '\\', $in).PHP_EOL;
?>
done!
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Jim Lucas
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