Stripping slashes from a string

[sjonger]

Well, of course you have the stripslahes() function ni PHP...

But, i need a function that strips the slashes of a whole string except for the part that is between <ascii> </ascii>.

So if i have this string:

$str = "Hello, I\'m a \string <ascii>And I\'M looking good</ascii> Bal bla"

And you do the function i want to have this string

$str = "Hello, I'm a string <ascii>And I\'M looking good</ascii> Bal bla"

I tried to look into regular expressions, but they aren't that easy to understand for a hobbycoder...

any help will be appreciated...

TBA

[jason]

Its definitely a job for a regular expression, but kind of a tricky one. I'll give it some thought...

--Jason

[gerilya]

$string = "Hello, I\'m a \string <ascii>And I\'M looking good</ascii> Bal bla <ascii>And I\'M looking good 2</ascii> bl
a bla bla 2";
$magic_string = "/(.*?)(<ascii>.*?<\/ascii>)/e";
print preg_replace($magic_string, "str_replace(\"\\'\",\"'\",'\\1').'\\2'", $string) . "\n"; 

Have fun

EDITED:
This forum seems to escape half of the characters in the code and I even can't attach gif.


$magic_string = "/(.*?)(<ascii>.*?<&#92;/ascii>)/e";
print preg_replace($magic_string, "str_replace(&#92;"&#92;&#92;'&#92;",&#9 2;"'&#92;",'&#92;&#92;1').'&#92;&#92;2'" , $string) . "\n";

[gerilya]

Originally posted by jason
Its definitely a job for a regular expression, but kind of a tricky one. I'll give it some thought...

--Jason

Nah, everyone who once took a C class can do it with strstr() function and a while loop. In fact, it's much easier and makes a code more readable, I just like to do things a hard way

[lookout]

The gif was probably too big to post. 100k or so is probably the upper limit here; might be less.

I've always thought doing things the hard way helps builds character. Though in this case, if done right, it should strip characters.

That and a greater appreciation for elegant code....

[gerilya]

Originally posted by lookout
The gif was probably too big to post. 100k or so is probably the upper limit here; might be less.

Try to attach a small gif into this thread and tell me how it is going

I've always thought doing things the hard way helps builds character. Though in this case, if done right, it should strip characters.

That and a greater appreciation for elegant code....

LOL! This code is hardly elegant, not to mention complexity. And on top of that here is a bug: it doesn't strip slashes after the last </ascii>.

Here is the fix that strips slahes ONLY after the last </ascii> :
$magic_string = "/(.*<&#92;/ascii&#62;&#41;*(.*)/e";
print preg_replace($magic_string, "'&#92;&#92;1' . str_replace(&#92;"&#92;&#92;'&#92;",&#92 ;"'&#92;",'&#92;&#92;2')", $string) . "\n";

[lookout]

You misunderstood what I was saying. I didn't mean your solution was elegant here or correct. I wasn't even analyzing it, other than thinking, that looks like a rather cumbersome way to accomplish the task at hand. All I was saying was that doing things the hard way often leads to a greater appreciation for simple, elegant solutions that one doesn't get otherwise.

Let's see if this gif works now...

[lookout]

Apparently not.

Let's try a smaller one.

[lookout]

No go there either. Well, they used to work here. What about a jpg?

[lookout]

No go either. Seems like attachments have been disabled. Looks like one must link the image from a site on the net rather than attach it, like so?



[appended]
No? Seems like the feature has stopped working then.

[appended again]
Ok, I've started another thread on the image attachment thing, so the rest of you can get back to slash slashing methods if you like.