Re: Re: Stripping weird characters again...
| From: | Paul Nowosielski | Date: | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:43:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Stripping weird characters again... | ||
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It works, thank you!
On Monday 24 July 2006 16:21, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> 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.
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Paul Nowosielski
Webmaster