On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:45:10AM -0700, Jim Lucas wrote:
> Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:30:54PM -0700, Jim Lucas wrote:
> >>Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>I'm using the PEAR Crypt_Blowfish module. When I decrypt the encrypted
> >>>string the result is the original plus some '\ufffd' bytes. How can I
> >>>get rid of those extra bytes? I've tried both trim($x,'\ufffd') and
> >>>trim($x,utf8_decode('\ufffd')).
> >>>
> >>trim() is meant to remove chars from the beginning and ending of a string.
> >>
> >>http://us2.php.net/str_replace is meant to remove a set of chars from a
> >>string. Anywhere within the string.
> >
> >But it *is* a single char that I'm wanting to remove (multiple times).
> >Perhaps you are confusing a char with a byte?
>
> Nope, not confused, but I ASSUMED that maybe the chars were not at the
> beginning or ending of the string, but somewhere in the middle. ( you
> didn't say where the chars were )
Yes, I did. "the original *plus* some '\ufffd' bytes" clearly means that
they were added at the end.
> And since you were using trim(), that you were using the wrong function.
> Which only works on the beginning and ending of a string.
I wanted to remove the characters that were added at the *end* of the
string.
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