check for special characters vi an array...

[v3nt]

i have 17 fields i want to chech for special chars, but i don't want to hand code each field checker. Could i get something like this to work?
ie.
$course=C&D; become $course=CandD;

$fld array= ("$course", "$school", "$degree", "$teluk", "$telother", "$mbl", "$emailrca", "$emailother", "$web1", "$web"2, "$degreeother", "$workexp", "$exhibs", "$awards", "$sponsor", "$pstate", "$title");

for($x=1; $x<17; $x++){
$fieldlist =${'ref'.$x};
$fld[$x] = str_replace(chr(13), "\r\n", $fld[$x]); 
$fld[$x] = preg_replace("/(\n\n)+/", "\n", $fld[$x]); 
$fld[$x]  =str_replace("&","and",$fld[$x]);
}

many thanks....

[vaaaska]

Something like that could work. Have you tried it? Are you getting an error?

You also might consider boiling that down a function, or a few little functions and using array_map.

http://www.php.net/array_map