Re: Unwanted Characters
| From: | Joe Stump | Date: | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:05:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unwanted Characters | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Look at the chr() function - figure out what the character is (number wise) and
then do an ereg_replace(chr(),'',$string) (from the hip - you can do a replace
with chr() on one of the replaces, I've done it before)
--Joe
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:34:21AM -0500, Clayton Dukes wrote:
>
> How do I remove unwanted/unprintable characters from a variable?
>
> $sometext = "ThÀe cØar röøan over mÖy dog"
> needs to be filtered and reprinted as:
> "The car ran over my dog"
>
>
>
>
> Thanks :-)
> Clayton Dukes
>
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