Ok, I still have the problem.
If I echo the string to a webpage, it still contains the ?
So I viewed the source in a notepad, and the thing that shows up next to
"string" is a TM.
I tried using htmlentities on the string that I'm echoing but the question
mark/tm is still there.
Anybody know how to fix this?
-Brent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Clements" <bclem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Brent Clements" <bclem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: strip out wierd characters in a string
> Solved my own problem.
>
> I ran the script itself from the unix prompt and forced it's output to a
> text file
> I then viewed the text file and saw the actual wierd character. I then
used
> strtr to replace the wierd character with a single space.
>
> Pretty simple and clean way to fix this.
>
> -Brent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Clements" <bclem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:22 AM
> Subject: strip out wierd characters in a string
>
>
> Hi Guys,
> I think that a string that I'm grabbing from a website was actually
created
> using ms-word. If I echo the string out, it has a question mark in it.
>
> If you look at the website, the text is fine
> ie"string some more text"
>
> but when I grab it from the website, and then echo the string, I get.
>
> "string? some more text"
>
> I have tried doing this
>
> echo str_replace("?", " ", $text);
>
> but it still print's out the ?. I think it's because the string itself has
a
> wierd binary character in it or something.
>
> Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Brent
>
>
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