removing extra characters, etc.

[spivey]

I have scraped strings that display fine but there is all sorts of junk attached when I pass it to the URL.

Below is an example:

CB MCKINTY, ADRIAN 

.

But when it gets passed to the URL, it looks like this:

%0D%0A++++++++++%0D%0A%09++%0D%0A%09++++CB+MCKINTY%2C+ADRIAN%0D%0A%09++%0D%0A%09%0D%0A+++

how to I remove all of this extra crap from my strings?

spivey

[Weedpacket]

Looks like you've got a whole lot of whitespace in that string. [man]trim[/man]ming it before putting it in the URL would probably help.