How do I remove backslashes from data?

johnemc2

I have problem of stripping slashes from the date that's saved in a database.
The date isn't saved with slashes, it's saved in readable format as e.g. 12/12/2016.
When Datatables serves it up to use via ajax, it looks like: 12\/12\/2016

Datatables won't display it with the slashes, I think.
Can't use the php function, stripslashes($result), because it's an array. Thanks in advance.

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johnemc2

Update:
I was able to prevent json_encode from escaping the forward slashes in the date by using...

json_encode($res,JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)