Remove quotes from start and end of string in PHP

Question

I have strings like these:

\"my value1\" => my value1
\"my Value2\" => my Value2
myvalue3 => myvalue3 
         


        

Answer 1

You need to use regular expressions, look at:-

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

Or you could, in this instance, use substr to check if the first and then the last character of the string is a quote mark, if it is, truncate the string.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php