Posted by Brent Baisley on 10/12/05 15:22

Have you tried the stripslashes() function? That will "unescape"
characters that have been escaped.

On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Martin Selway wrote:

> I use a php page which is supposed to return records from a
> database table limited to the servername specicified in a drop down
> menu.
> A servername may contain a backslash e.g. Server1\SQL1.
> When this data is returned from the URL e.g. $server = $_GET
> ['server'];
> The name is returned as Server1\\SQL1, so the search fails.
>
> I've tried using a regular expression to remove one of the
> backslashes:
> $server = ereg_replace("\\", "\", $server);
> but I can't get this to work either.
>
> Any suggestions welcome, I'm running out of ideas.
>
> Martin
>
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