How can I remove slashes from strings?

Question

I am trying to do some PHP programming concepts and I am not aware of some in-build functions. So my doubt is:

In PHP, how to remove slashes from strings? Is there any function available in PHP for this??

e.g.

$string="people are using Iphone/'s instead of Android phone/'s";

Answer 1

backslashes need escaping

$newstr = "<h1>Hello \ fred</h1>";

echo str_replace('\\','',$newstr);