tweaking the regex for reduce_double_slashes to correctly handle duplicates at the beginning of the string
diff --git a/system/helpers/string_helper.php b/system/helpers/string_helper.php
index 3f7f09a..dbfa0c4 100644
--- a/system/helpers/string_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/string_helper.php
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
{
function reduce_double_slashes($str)
{
- return preg_replace("#([^:])//+#", "\\1/", $str);
+ return preg_replace("#(^|[^:])//+#", "\\1/", $str);
}
}
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 3ff05bb..2b3a71e 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
<li>Fixed a bug in xss_clean() that was not allowing hyphens in query strings of submitted URLs.</li>
<li>Fixed bugs in get_dir_file_info() and get_file_info() in the File Helper with recursion, and file paths on Windows.</li>
<li>Fixed a bug where Active Record override parameter would not let you disable Active Record if it was enabled in your database config file.</li>
+ <li>Fixed a bug in reduce_double_slashes() in the String Helper to properly remove duplicate leading slashes (#7585)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 1.7.2</h2>