How to remove the first & last slash from a url if it's exists?

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Published on 2010-06-01T18:00:31Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 18:03 UTC
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Hi I use parse_url() to get the path of a url but i want to remove the first slash & the last if it's exists.

Example:

"/posts/funny-dog/" -> "posts/funny-dog"
"/" -> "" // Because http://www.google.com/ path is a slash
"/categories/politic" -> "categories/politics"

Thanks

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