Editing a post in Character Replacing. Is this possible in PHP?

[Janey]

I want to be able to strip any character that is does not appear in
the following list from a text string:

$LegalChars="\" !#$%&'()*+,-.\\/0123456789:;=?@ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_`abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz{ |}~";

And conververt the following:
£ to £
€ to €
‘ to '
' to '
" to "
" to "
• to •

So, if the input string was:

$Input = "Andrés says "...the € is very useful"";

The out at is generated is:

$Output = "Andres says "...the € is very useful"";

(I've marked the changes in red above)

Could anyone write me a little function that can do this?
Many thanks

[Gary L. Burnore]

Re: Editing a post in Character Replacing. Is this possible in PHP?

On 23 Nov 2004 14:00:08 -0800, Phantom.Mask@ph otoshot.com (Janey)
wrote:
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>I want to be able to strip any character that is does not appear in
>the following list from a text string:
>
>$LegalChars="\ "!#$%&'()*+ ,-.\\/0123456789:;=?@ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_`abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz{ |}~";
>
>And conververt the following:
> £ to £
> € to €
> ‘ to '
> ' to '
> " to "
> " to "
> • to •
>
>So, if the input string was:
>
>$Input = "Andrés says "...the € is very useful"";
>
>The out at is generated is:
>
>$Output = "Andres says "...the € is very useful"";
>
>(I've marked the changes in red above)
>
>Could anyone write me a little function that can do this?[/color]

Write you? Hah.

check out str_replace and write it yourself.
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>Many thanks[/color]

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[Alan Little]

Re: Editing a post in Character Replacing. Is this possible in PHP?

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Janey of comp.lang.php make plain:
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> (I've marked the changes in red above)[/color]

In a plain text post?
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> Could anyone write me a little function that can do this?[/color]

The PHP developers have already written you a little function that can do
this.

Try http://www.php.net/preg_replace for the stripping and
http://www.php.net/str_replace for the replacing.

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