What are the best practices for handling backslashes in PHP strings?

When working with backslashes in PHP strings, it is important to properly escape them to avoid any unintended consequences. To handle backslashes correctly, you can use the PHP function addslashes() to add slashes before special characters or use the PHP function stripslashes() to remove slashes added by addslashes(). This ensures that backslashes are handled correctly and do not interfere with the string's content. 

$string = "This is a string with a backslash: \\";
$escaped_string = addslashes($string);
echo $escaped_string; // Output: This is a string with a backslash: \\\\

Keywords

escape characters addslashes stripslashes addslashes addslashes_recursive

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