Re: getting rid of bad characters

From:	Chris Shiflett	Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:12:37 +0000
Subject:	Re: getting rid of bad characters
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Dan McCullough wrote:

I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable HTML safe characters.

This seems to work: $search = array('/[\x07\x95]/',

                '/\x85/',
                '/[\x91\x92]/',
                '/[\x93\x94]/');

$replace = array('-',

                 '...',
                 "'",
                 '"');

$string = preg_replace($search, $replace, $string); Hope that helps. Chris -- Chris Shiflett Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy http://brainbulb.com/