Re: Re: Stripping weird characters again...
| From: | Paul Nowosielski | Date: | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:21:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Stripping weird characters again... | ||
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I understand I need to do a string replace.
Should I do it like so?
$search = array(chr(145),chr(146),chr(147),chr(148),chr(150),chr(151));
$replace =
array("'","'",'"','"','-','-');
Is this what you mean?
Thank you,
--
Paul Nowosielski
Webmaster
On Monday 24 July 2006 16:12, Adam Zey wrote:
> Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm having a problem replacing these bad characters from a feed.
> >
> > Example:
> > <description>The United Kingdom<92>s National Arena Association has
> > elected Geoff Huckstep, the current CEO of the National Ice Centre and
> > Nottingham Arena, as chairman.</description>
> >
> > The <92>is actually a single quote. I have these from some of the data
> > dumps. I can't figure out what exactly to strip.
> >
> > When I view the file in vi they appear like <92> <93> <94> (highlighted
> > in blue like controll characters.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction to purge this from my feed?
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Paul Nowosielski
> > Webmaster
>
> You want str_replace with arrays as parameters.
>
> Regards, Adam Zey.