# Using stripslashes question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-stripslashes-question/140776>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-stripslashes-question/140776 "2005-03-14T12:27:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-stripslashes-question/140776/1 "2005-03-14T12:27:27Z")

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I have some data in a database that looks like this **“some text”.**  
Now what I do is check to see if magic quotes is turned on, if it is than I know that that piece of text will be escaped before putting into the data base.

When I pull the data back out and use the **stripslashes** (), all I see is a “” but not the data. stripslashes works well with single quoted strings but for some reason I’m having an issue with double quoted strings.

Any ideas?

Thanks