Question

I’m using Gtranslate plugin for a client website and translating some words using the apostrophe I found that the plugin add a backslash before it:

Hello I/’m going to dinner…

How can I remove the backslash before apostrophe?

There is a php fix that I can add to the plugin or should I use a javascript solution?

And can you can help me to find a good way to do it in both case?

Thanks.

Answer 1

A regular expression in Javascript can remove all backslashes, but there might be cases where the string really means to use a backslash. Then you would need a more specific change, from \' to '

http://jsfiddle.net/scx8t/

​s = "I\\'m Bob and you\\'re Jane\\\\'s mother";
document.write("before: " + s + "<br>")

s = s.replace(/\\/g, "")​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​;
​document.write("after: " + s);

To specifically replace \’ write s.replace(/\\'/g, "'")

For this slash / you would write s.replace(/\//g, "")​​​​​​​​, for both, s.replace(/[\/\\]/g, "")

EDIT: For this application a PHP preg_replace appears more appropriate. I just don’t have a PHP running right now so I wrote Javascript 😛 Here’s what it should look like:

<?php
$str = 'I\\\'m Joe, you\\\'re Sara';
$str = preg_replace('/\\/', '', $str);
// I'm not sure if the g goes at the end of the pattern to replace all.
echo $str;
?> 

NOTE /\\/ might need to be /\\/g. I’m not familiar with PHP.

from here Example #4 Strip whitespace