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

How about regex

//$singleQuotedString="'Hello this 'someword' and \"somewrod\" stas's SO";
//$singleQuotedString="Hello this 'someword' and \"somewrod\" stas's SO'";
$singleQuotedString="'Hello this 'someword' and \"somewrod\" stas's SO'";

$quotesFreeString=preg_replace('/^\'?(.*?(?=\'?$))\'?$/','$1' ,$singleQuotedString);

Output

Hello this 'someword' and "somewrod" stas's SO