stripslashes, addslashes help!

[padders]

Got a problem. I am trying to store something like:

^.+@.+\\..+$

in the database but don't know the best way to do it. If i just put it in normally and call out normally it does not work so know i need to do something, but not sure what.

If i have

^.+@.+\..+$
in the database, when i take it from the database it works as if it was ^.+@.+\\..+$ so i thought that i should try and remove a slash from before i put it in, but doing
stripslashes(^.+@.+\\..+$)
removed both of them...

confused as you can tell

[petesmc]

Try:

$text = "^.+@.+\\..+$";
$text = addslashes($text);

Then when you take out of the database do:

$text = stripslashes($text);
print $text;

[padders]

thank you so so so much it worked.

however, it made no difference if i used stripslahes($text) or not, istn't that a bit weird?

[petesmc]

Yup, but hey it worked!