Removing return

moggy

Hi,

I have the following text in an RSS feed I'm trying to create:

&quot;some text here&quot;

How to I get rid of the symbol??

Already tried to strip whitespace.

Thanks!!

kbc1

$string = str_replace(""", "", $string);

NogDog

Is, in fact, the """ (which is a perfectly valid XML character entity) what you want to get rid of, or are you talking about something else?

PS: After looking at the thread title, I think all you need to do is use the [man]trim/man function, perhaps?

moggy

Nope, sorry, ignore the " - if you look at this post in Explorer you should see a square character at the end of the code which replaces a carriage return that the user inputted - that's what I'm trying to get rid of. I've tried trim() but no joy.

If you can't see it I can send a screenshot! ;-)

Crowly

Not sure, but might work

$string=substr($string,0,length($string)-1);

Perhaps you need to find the hex/ascii value of that symbol, then use "something" to remove that it when you search for the hex/ascii value. Dont know to much about this stuff, thats why its vague 😉

condoug

How about something like this:

$text = preg_replace( '/\p{Nl}/u', ' ', $text );

$text = preg_replace( '/\p{Me}/u', ' ', $text );

do either of those work?

NogDog

Well, neither Firefox nor IE7 is showing any "square character" (or any other indication of a non-printable character). A screenshot won't really help, as it won't tell us what the non-printable character is.

A link to the actual page would be the ideal way for us to help. If that's not possible for technical or privacy reasons, all I can think of is to make sure your <?xml declaration is including the correct encoding attribute and value for the text data which is being output.

moggy

Thanks again - I've tried condoug's suggestions but no joy.

Here's a link to a potion of the xml wher the strange character occurs (immediately after "Born of a Star")
http://www.mogstarmedia.co.uk/error/feederror.zip (contains feederror.xml)
or
http://www.mogstarmedia.co.uk/error/feederror.xml

This is not valid XML at the mo, just a portion of the file.

This text was pasted into a CMS from Word and I believe that this was a return in Word.

Thanks!

NogDog

Looks to be ASCII code '9D' in hexadecimal, so try this:

$text = preg_replace('/\x9D/', '', $text);

moggy

Thanks all, sorted! Much appreciated ;-)

bradgrafelman

Also note that there shouldn't be a need to use PCRE...

$text = str_replace("\x9D", '', $text);

Either way, don't forget to mark this thread resolved.