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php how to replace slashes from beginning and end?

Answer 1

A:

Use ltrim and rtrim:

$txt = '////////this/that////////////';
echo rtrim(ltrim($txt, '/'), '/');

Result:

this/that

Sarfraz 2010-06-21 13:08:37

This answer is not incorrect. Don't understand the down-votes.

sshow 2010-06-21 13:18:50

Why the down votes please?

Sarfraz 2010-06-21 13:21:03

@sshow I didn't downvote, but I think it is because the answer isn't quite as good as it could have been (e.g. it uses `rtrim` and `ltrim` rather than trim)

Yacoby 2010-06-21 13:21:03

@Yacoby: Thanks for your comment but I think answer isn't **wrong**. Doesn't deserve downvote if no upvote at all :)

Sarfraz 2010-06-21 13:22:15

The title to the down-vote is "this answer is *not* useful", which this answer obviously is, since it answers the question.

sshow 2010-06-21 13:25:29

This code is self-obfuscated. Being unobvious it makes reading and supporting harder.

Col. Shrapnel 2010-06-21 13:30:41

@sshow In my opinion it "is not useful" because it doesn't do it in the "best possible" way. I didn't downvote as I am clearly biased on this issue.

Yacoby 2010-06-21 13:31:33

Works just the same just bit more code. So technically its not wrong.

2010-06-21 13:50:24

Answer 2

+10 A:

Use trim with the second argument the character(s) that you want to trim.

$result = trim('/this/that//', '/');
//$result is now 'this/that'

Yacoby 2010-06-21 13:08:37

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