php string trimming

[qmqmqm]

Hi

 

I have a string that contains "my_value" (including the double-quotation matks). How should I trim off the 2 double quotation marks? I used trim($myString, "\""); but it only got rid of the first double-quotation mark...

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

[premiso]

<?php
$trim = '"test string"';
$trim = trim($trim, '"');
echo $trim;
?>

 

That worked for me.

 

EDIT:

Thinking about it, are Magic Quotes turned on, on your server? If so then the character is actualy \" which would explain why it does not trim it.  I would either turn off Magic Quotes or try doing a stripslashes on the data before trimming.

 

This is assuming you are getting the value from a POST/GET scenario.

 

[allworknoplay]

This works for me:

 

<?php


$string = trim('"string"', "\""); 

echo $string;

?>

 

Output: string

[cooldude832]

EDIT:

Thinking about it, are Magic Quotes turned on, on your server? If so then the character is actualy \" which would explain why it does not trim it.  I would either turn off Magic Quotes or try doing a stripslashes on the data before trimming.

 

This is assuming you are getting the value from a POST/GET scenario.

 

 

Never turn on Magic Quotes its being removed for newer versions of PHP thus you should get use to not using it

[premiso]

Never turn on Magic Quotes its being removed for newer versions of PHP thus you should get use to not using it

 

Did I once tell him to turn it on? I simply asked him to check if it is "on".

 

I would either turn off Magic Quotes or try doing a stripslashes()

[qmqmqm]

interesting...

 

I discovered that since I am reading this line from a file, it actually has something weird to do with the end of line. trim($split_line[1], "\""); did not work for me;

however trim(trim($split_line[1]), "\""); worked! I guess the inner trim() got rid of some weird stuff having to do with lines read from a file???