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alemil
alemil

Reputation: 21

Cannot remove double quotes from string PHP

Have tried every solution here and still nothing. This is var_dump string(19) ""Example"". I just need to remove double quotes from name so "Example" should be Example Tried with trim, preg_replace, substr.

I think that there is problem somewhere else but I dont have much experience with PHP so I am stuck.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8369

Answers (4)

Philip Bauer
Philip Bauer

Reputation: 31

This worked:

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

Upvotes: 3

citrusy
citrusy

Reputation: 161

Try trim($string, '"'); and take some time to learn about HTML entities.

What's happening is the double quotes are html entities, so as you've seen in var_dump the string is not "Movie Title" but &x#22;Movie Title&x#22;. There is no literal double quote in the string for the function to trim, so it fails. You need to trim the entity instead.

Upvotes: 1

Igor R
Igor R

Reputation: 426

If

str_replace('"', '', $a)

does not work, maybe that is not a single double quote, but it's analogue, like ¨

Upvotes: 1

Jan
Jan

Reputation: 43169

Here we go:

<?php
$str = '""Example""';
$str = str_replace('"', '', $str);
echo $str;
?>

You can even see a demo on ideone.com.

Upvotes: 5

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