Is there a native CodeIgniter function that does the reverse of $this->db->escape()?

Question

I was looking for a function that does the reverse of $this->db->escape() to get the original string when it was still unescaped.

I have tried searching for it in the Codeigniter docs. I don't think I can find one.

I also tried finding a native PHP function for it( since it uses mysql_real_escape_string when using MySQL) but so far the closest thing that I can find is stripslashes()

Answer 1

stripslashes will unescape the string correctly.