On 2/17/06, Dean Jones <deanj@cleancode.org> wrote:

Umm... That's silly. They're definitely needed. Try sending an e-mail and put quotes around something or use a single quote. The message ends up like this:

He said \"Hi\"

and

Wouldn\'t you like to know.

Using stripslashes removes those uneccessary escape slashes around quotes.

It's absolutely needed.

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:08:41 +0100, Håkan Lindqvist < lindqvist@netstar.se> wrote:
> I don't understand why it should be necessary to use stripslashes in the
> first place. The slashes shouldn't be there in the first place, except
> in SQL queries.
>
> To me it seems that stripslashes isn't what we're looking for.
>
>
> /Håkan
>
> On tor, 2006-02-16 at 22:47 -0500, Dean Jones wrote:
>> Look like someone forgot to use stripslashes on the subject and body of
> the
>> messages... :)
>>
>> Is there a standard for checking in patches if you have access to CVS?
> I've
>> fixed this, but I wanted to check and see what the procedure was for
> checking
>> in small fixes like this.
>>
>> Dean
>>
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