i still dont know regular expression pattern syntax!

i just need to remove all of the backslash characters in a string variable. How on earth do you specify a backslash as the pattern for a preg_replace(and the like)?

You mean, use stripslashes (http://www.php.net/stripslashes)?

yea well if you have ther message set it like this

$message= "message part";
stripslashes($message);
echo"$message";