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

As much as this thread should have been killed long ago, I couldn't help but respond with what I would call the simplest answer of all. I noticed this thread re-emerging on the 17th so I don't feel quite as bad about this. :)

Using samples as provided by Steve Chambers;

echo preg_replace('/(^[\"\']|[\"\']$)/', '', $input);

Output 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
'"'"@";'"*&^*'' => "'"@";'"*&^*'

This only ever removes the first and last quote, it doesn't repeat to remove extra content and doesn't care about matching ends.