title: How can I remove escape characters using PHP?
body: <p>I have the following text </p>
  
  <pre><code>$text = "\\vct=140\\AraignÃ©e du soir espoir,araignÃ©e du matin,espoir du matin."
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to remove the escape characters using php..I do not want to use stripslashes since it is server dependent.. </p>
  
  <p>I want to remove the '\' before the '\vct=140' and the '\' before '\Arai....' 
  How can I remove them from the string?</p>