I understand I need to do a string replace. Should I do it like so? $search = array(chr(145),chr(146),chr(147),chr(148),chr(150),chr(151)); $replace = array("'","'",'"','"','-','-'); Is this what you mean? Thank you, -- Paul Nowosielski Webmaster On Monday 24 July 2006 16:12, Adam Zey wrote: > Paul Nowosielski wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I'm having a problem replacing these bad characters from a feed. > > > > Example: > > <description>The United Kingdom<92>s National Arena Association has > > elected Geoff Huckstep, the current CEO of the National Ice Centre and > > Nottingham Arena, as chairman.</description> > > > > The <92>is actually a single quote. I have these from some of the data > > dumps. I can't figure out what exactly to strip. > > > > When I view the file in vi they appear like <92> <93> <94> (highlighted > > in blue like controll characters. > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction to purge this from my feed? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Paul Nowosielski > > Webmaster > > You want str_replace with arrays as parameters. > > Regards, Adam Zey. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php