Re: Unwanted Characters

In article <20010224220539.C23830@zebulon.miester.org>, jstump@zebulon.miester.org (Joe Stump) wrote: > 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" And you might also want to look at strtr() <http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtr.php>. You could, I suppose, use it to substitute some character that you know would never legitimately appear in $sometext, then do a straight str_replace() on the string for all occurences of that character. -- CC