Remove quotes from start and end of string in PHP

Question

I have strings like these:

\"my value1\" => my value1
\"my Value2\" => my Value2
myvalue3 => myvalue3 
         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar need and wrote a function that will remove leading and trailing single or double quotes from a string:

/**
 * Remove the first and last quote from a quoted string of text
 *
 * @param mixed $text
 */
function stripQuotes($text) {
  return preg_replace('/^(\'(.*)\'|"(.*)")$/', '$2$3', $text);
} 

This will produce the outputs listed below:

Input text         Output text
--------------------------------
No quotes       => No quotes
"Double quoted" => Double quoted
'Single quoted' => Single quoted
"One of each'   => "One of each'
"Multi""quotes" => Multi""quotes
'"'"@";'"*&^*'' => "'"@";'"*&^*'

Regex demo (showing what is being matched/captured): https://regex101.com/r/3otW7H/1