proposal: strings: add StripSlashes like PHP stripslashes

[LockGit]

Provide a new function, like any other language, function can Un-quotes a quoted string.

Describe:
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (' becomes ' and so on.)
Double backslashes (\) are made into a single backslash ().

For example:

fmt.Println(StripSlashes(`\\\\1`))  
// will print  "\\1"

other language function like: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

See pull request:
#43492

Relates to the proposal:
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/281372

[ianlancetaylor]

Please describe exactly what the proposed function will do. For example, please give the documentation comment that would appear in https://golang.org/pkg/strings. Thanks.

[robpike]

Doesn't strconv.Unquote do the job you need? You need to attach double quotes to the string, but that is a trivial adjustment.

https://play.golang.org/p/UcgucN3TB_h

[LockGit]

https://play.golang.org/p/THD-0MyJmnW

If the string contains quotation marks in the middle.It looks more difficult to handle.

[robpike]

That is unfortunate, but the code is telling you the truth: That string is not a valid Go string to be unquoted, as it contains unescaped double quotes. You are asking to solve a problem that is not well defined within the Go environment.

Go has distinct rules for backslashes that are context-dependent. " is legal only in a double-quoted string, while ' is legal only in a rune constant. That is why strconv.Unquote requires the quote character to be included: it defines the rules for unquoting.

You are asking for a new set of rules, and so it seems unlikely to be something needed in the standard Go library. I suggest you write the code that does what you need, and use.

[rsc]

PHP stripslashes is essentially PHP unquote, as far as I can tell.
If you need to unquote Go strings, use strconv.Unquote.
If you need to unquote another syntax, you should use a syntax-specific unquoter.
It's impossible to write a "generic" unquoter because you wouldn't know which syntaxes to allow or not.

[rsc]

This proposal has been added to the active column of the proposals project
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[rsc]

Based on the discussion above, this proposal seems like a likely decline.
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[rsc]

No change in consensus, so declined.
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