ction <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html#trim_slashes" title="trim_slashes"><code class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">trim_slashes()</span></code></a> is now just an alias
for PHP’s native <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">trim()</span></code> function (with a slash passed as its second argument). It is deprecated and
scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
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