On 2/26/2015 2:22 PM, Christoph Becker wrote: > JEofVA wrote: > >> I just noticed something weird in the debug information that I am >> getting from this program that probably has something to do with my >> problem, but I don't quite know what to make if it. Perhaps someone can >> clue me into what is going on. >> >> When the 'extract_quotes($string)' method is called the $string it is >> passed comes from another variable that holds the cleaned contents of a >> text input. I didn't notice before but as I looked at the string using >> var_dump(), immediately after it has gotten passed into the method, I >> get an anomalous report. Below is what I get: >> >> string(57) ""some phrase" single "another phrase"" >> >> >> The outermost quotes excluded, I count 37 characters in the string. Why >> are 57 being reported? Could the miscount be an indicator of why the >> method doesn't recognize any of the quotes? > Well, if this var_dump() output is displayed on a webpage, you should > have a look at the HTML source code. I can easily imagine that the > string is actually: > > '"some phrase" single "another phrase"' > > This has a length of 57 bytes, and would explain why your method doesn't > recognize the quotes. > Boy, do I feel stupid. This is almost as bad as the time I .... well, never mind! You are absolutely right. That is my problem, and was easily fixed with html_entity_decode(). Thanks so much!!!
