Re: First stupid post of the year.

tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > I have a > > $submit = $_POST['submit']; > > The string contains: > >        A        > > (it's there to make a submit button wider) > > How can I strip out the " " from the $submit string leaving "A"? > > I've tried > > trim($submit); > > but, that don't work. > > Neither does: > > $submit = str_replace(' ','',$submit); > > or this: > > $submit = str_replace(' ';','',$submit); > > I should know what to do, but in this case I don't. > > Help is always appreciated. > > Cheers, > > tedd > The problem is, is that you are not getting        A        when you submit your form. It is being URL encoded by the browser and you are actually getting  %20 %20 %20 A %20 %20 %20  So, what you need to do is this $submit = urldecode($submit);// This will take care of the %20 for spaces $submit = str_replace(' ','',$submit); // This takes out the encoded entities That should take care of your problem. Here is a note from teh html_entity_decode page: Note: You might wonder why trim(html_entity_decode(' ')); doesn't reduce the string to an empty string, that's because the ' ' entity is not ASCII code 32 (which is stripped by trim()) but ASCII code 160 (0xa0) in the default ISO 8859-1 characterset. /note So, you might try replacing the   with ASCII 160 char. I found that if you hold down the alt key and press 160 on your keyboard, it will create that char for you. you could also do a chr(160) and get it in PHP. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare