What is the simplest way to remove a trailing slash from each parameter in the '$@' array, so that rsync copies the directories by name? rsync -a --exclude='*~' "$@" "$dir" The title has been ...

I want to remove the backslash alone using php preg replace. For example: I have a string looks like $var = "This is the for \testing and i want to add the # and remove \slash alone from the giv...

I'm using ajax to grab a URL. The problem is the URL has slashes in it and when the JQuery load takes place afterwords it will not load the page. AJAX success bit: success: function(data) { $('#...

I've seen dozens of PHP snippets that go like this: function DB_Quote($string) { if (get_magic_quotes_gpc() == true) { $string = stripslashes($string); } return mysql_real_escape_string($str...

I'm having issues escaping/stripping strings with PHP/MySQL - there always seems to be redundant slashes. Let's take the following string as an example: <span style="text-decoration:underlin...

I am trying to input data using forms into the MySQL, and also using mysql_real_escape_string for this purpose. Unfortunately I am having a problem with the output. It displays \s, or if I use stri...