stripping up to 26 slashes 1

[superjett]

I've tried many ways and searched for other approaches, but am stumped other than the brute force approach on this one.

I have a string variable coming out of a PLC (industrial control processor) that uses \00 as a filler character. That gets stored in MSSQL2000. That is not a problem but when I want to display it, I would like to take everything off the end of the actual name so it looks right.

ex.
GILSONITE\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00

The problem I'm having is \ is a php identifier and using it in a str_replace causes problems. I can take the 00's out and leave the slashes then run up to 7 stripslashes to chop them off but I have 6 variables to work with and that would be silly coding IMO.

Any other suggestions? Or, should I look into mssql and see if I can do the formatting there?

 

[kenrbnsn]

Have you tried:

$test = 'GILSONITE\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00'
$test = str_replace('\\00','',$test);
echo $test;

To replace a single '\' you have to quote it with another '\', so you use '\\'.

Ken

 

[superjett]

You're exactly right and it makes sense after your response, no idea why I didn't see it.

I was using

$dmaterial = stripslashes(stripslashes(stripslashes(stripslashes(stripslashes(str_replace("00", "", $row['dmaterial']))))));

Hideous!

Thanks.

 

[kenrbnsn]

You can also use:

$test = trim($test,'\\00');

Ken