How can PHP be used to manipulate files containing " or ' without automatically adding a backslash?

When dealing with files containing " or ', PHP automatically adds a backslash before these characters to escape them. To prevent this automatic escaping, you can use the stripslashes() function to remove the backslashes before working with the file content. 

$fileContent = file_get_contents('example.txt');
$unescapedContent = stripslashes($fileContent);

// Now you can manipulate $unescapedContent without worrying about automatically added backslashes

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