Double quotes in ereg replace unwanted backslash

[optik]

Hi

I am using this regex

ereg_replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9[:blank:][:space:]&()'?.,:%!@\"\-]+", "", $_REQUEST['product_des']));

Which is allowing double quotes except a backslash is being added to the string before each double quote.

[optik]

can anyone help?

[eelixduppy]

Doesn't seem like it is coming from your expression here. Perhaps you are escaping the string somewhere? Are you POSTing the data to another script?