How to remove double quotes from a string

Question

This is my string:

$a='"some text';`

How can I remove the double quote so my output will look like this?

some text`

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score 44 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:00

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str_replace()

echo str_replace('"', '', $a);

answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:00

John Conde

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This solution removes all the double quotes – ThomasSquall Apr 30 '21 at 21:43

score 22 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 15 '16 at 06:18

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if string is: $str = '"World"';

ltrim() function will remove only first Double quote.

Output: World"

So instead of using both these function you should use trim(). Example:

$str = '"World"';
echo trim($str, '"');

Output-

World

edited Feb 15 '16 at 06:18

Manashvi Birla

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answered Jan 14 '15 at 13:54

Aman Garg

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This is the correct answer. Everyone who suggested str_replace -- that will replace *all* the double quotes. trim($str, '"') will remove double quotes from the beginning and end of the string. – Phl3tch Sep 11 '20 at 14:45

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:02

Probably makes the most sense to use ltrim() since str_replace() will remove all the inner quote characters (depends, maybe that's what you want to happen).

ltrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string

echo ltrim($string, '"');

If you want to remove quotes from both sides, just use regular trim(), the second argument is a string that contains all the characters you want to trim.

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:01

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Use str_replace

$a = str_replace('"', '', $a);

answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:01

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 05 '21 at 02:11

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There are different functions are available for replacing characters from string below are some example

$a='"some text';
echo 'String Replace Function<br>';
echo 'O/P : ';
echo $rs =str_replace('"','',$a);
echo '<br>===================<br>';
echo 'Preg Replace Function<br>';
echo 'O/P : ';  
echo preg_replace('/"/','',$a);
echo '<br>===================<br>';
echo 'Left Trim Function<br>';
echo 'O/P : ';  
echo ltrim($a, '"');
echo '<br>===================';

Here is the output.

edited Oct 05 '21 at 02:11

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answered Feb 15 '16 at 06:36

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Please show the result as code instead of a screenshot, see why on [meta](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/285557/2257664). – A.L Aug 17 '22 at 10:55

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 10 '22 at 03:58

There have two ways you can remove double quotes also third brackets from an array string.

Sample 1:

$ids = ["1002","1006","1005","1003","1004"];
$string = str_replace(array('[',']'),'',$ids);
$newString = preg_replace('/"/i', '', $string);
return $newString;

Sample 2:

function removeThirdBrackets($string)
 {
    $string = str_replace('[', '', $string);
    $string = str_replace(']', '', $string);
    $string = str_replace('"', '', $string);
    return $string;
 }

Output:

1002,1006,1005,1003,1004

After getting that output (those numbers separated by comma) `1002,1006,1005,1003,1004`, How do you insert them into an array? — Pathros, Sep 21 '22 at 21:37

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