Re: First stupid post of the year.

On 1/2/08, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008 1:34 PM, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > Hi gang: > > > > I have a > > > > $submit = $_POST['submit']; > > > > The string contains: > > > > &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; > > > > (it's there to make a submit button wider) > > > > How can I strip out the "&nbsp;" from the $submit string leaving > > "A"? > > > > I've tried > > > > trim($submit); > > > > but, that don't work. > > > > Neither does: > > > > $submit = str_replace('&nbsp;','',$submit); > > > > or this: > > > > $submit = str_replace(' ';','',$submit); > > > > I should know what to do, but in this case I don't. > > > > Help is always appreciated. > > > why dont you just style the button w/ css? > > style="width:200px" > > -nathan > Parse the string character by character discarding '&' , 'n' , 'b' , 's' , 'p' , and ';'. Assuming of course that the part of the label you want to keep is none of those characters. -David