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Asked: 2026-06-01T15:21:08+00:00

I’m new to programming, and I’m trying to apply the htmlspecialchars to the script

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I’m new to programming, and I’m trying to apply the htmlspecialchars to the script below, but all attempts have just resulted in error messages. I believe it should be something like: echo htmlspecialchars($lines), but not sure how this would apply to the code below, or if I should use something else.

The end result should convert the text from the .txt file from :
Anna said she \”wouldn\’t go to Hannah\’s house\”.

to:
Anna said she “wouldn’t go to Hannah’s house”.

<?php
$lines = file('users.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
uasort($lines, 'strnatcasecmp');

foreach ($lines as $num => $line) { 
printf("%s (line #%d)<br>", $line, $num);
}
?>
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  1. Editorial Team
    <?php
$lines = file('users.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
uasort($lines, 'strnatcasecmp');

foreach ($lines as $num => $line) { 
$line = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($line), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
printf("%s (line #%d)<br>", $line, $num);
}
?>

    stripslashes() will remove the slashes from that content for you.

    Even though htmlspecialchars() won’t deal with the slashes I included them since it’s good form to use it on user generated data (I’m assuming what is in the text file user generated data).

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