Removing extra quotation marks from a string - php

Question

so I have a lot of problematic values in my database.
There are two columns, one is email. Some emails are stored in this way "foo#foobar.com, the quotation mark at the starting is useless. I want that to be converted to foo#foobar.com.
Similarly, there's another field known as company, which has data like this stackoverflow", the quotation mark at the ending needs to be removed as well.
I have written this code, but for some reason this doesn't removes the quotation marks.
What am I doing wrong ?
Any suggestions are welcome.
global $conn;
try
{
$statement= $conn->query("SELECT * from emails");
$statement->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
while($rows = $statement->fetch())
{
$email=$rows['emailid'];
$company=$rows['company'];
$len = strlen($company);
if($email{0} == '"')
{
//problem at start
//fix there.
$updated = substr($email, 1);
//now update
try
{
$statement = $conn->prepare("UPDATE emails set emailid = :email where indexid = :indexid");
$statement->bindParam(':email',$updated);
$statement->bindParam(':indexid',$row['indexid']);
$statement->execute();
$statement->closeCursor();
return true;
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
}
elseif($company{$len-1} == '"')
{
$updated = substr($company, 0, -1);
//now update
try
{
$statement = $conn->prepare("UPDATE emails set company = :company where indexid = :indexid");
$statement->bindParam(':company',$updated);
$statement->bindParam(':indexid',$row['indexid']);
$statement->execute();
$statement->closeCursor();
return true;
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}
}
else
{
echo "";
}
}
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
echo $e->getMessage();
}

Answer 1

You can use trim:
trim($text, " \"'");
it's remove spaces and quotes from start and end of text variable