On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Mikey <frak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering if anyone here had experienced a simliar problem to mine. > > I am updating an Oracle XMLType column with XML built using DOM that is > populated with values from an Excel spreadsheet saved out as a CSV. > > My problem is that for certain (apparently) random rows the xml updated > will fail with the error: > > Warning: oci_execute(): OCIStmtExecute: ORA-31011: XML parsing failed > ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing > LPX-00217: invalid character 0 (\u0000) > Error at line 1 > ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 5 > ORA-06512: at line 1 > in /path/ob/fu/scated/archive.inc on line 1374 > > I have googled around and a Java fix for the problem seemed to revolve > around a null char being left on the end of the XML string, so I tried > stripping the last char from the string but this did not help. I then > used an ordUTF8 function I found in the manual notes to see if I could > find the null in the string - again, no luck. > > So my question is whether or not anyone here has a reliable way of > detcting and removing \u0000 chars from strings? > > regards, > > Mikey > > -- How about: $str = str_replace("\0", '', $str); -Casey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php