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How can I remove this character •

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Hi everyone,

I have tried finding out how to do this everywhere but I am coming up completely blank.

I have content coming into my site that I have no control over and it has this symbol • embedded in it. I really want to remove it and I can't see how.

Can anyone shed any light on it please?

Thanks in advance!

Ricahrd
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Re: How can I remove this character •

Are you using an <ul> <li> ?
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Re: How can I remove this character •

Hi pritaeas,

No I'm not using any lists. Basically I am wrapping content coming in from a CURL request in <p> tags and the • symbol is in the content.

I can't find a way to strip it with str_replace etc. Quite annoying.
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Re: How can I remove this character •

try using str_replace

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  1. <?php
  2. $source = "string with • ";
  3. $newString = str_replace("•", "", $source);

that should work
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Re: How can I remove this character •

never mind you posted that while i was writing that. sorry
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Re: How can I remove this character •

If it is in the content, then there should be a way to delete it. Do you have a link to the offending page ?
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Re: How can I remove this character •

OK I have to admit to being stupid on this one.

@leviathan185 while I was reading your comment it occurred to me that I was trying string replace while messing around with htmlentities as well. I hadn't actually tried str_replace simply using the character. I know stupid. And guess what. It worked.

Sorry for the oversight guys, thanks to everyone who posted.


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Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote originally posted by rickya100 ...
OK I have to admit to being stupid on this one.

@leviathan185 while I was reading your comment it occurred to me that I was trying string replace while messing around with htmlentities as well. I hadn't actually tried str_replace simply using the character. I know stupid. And guess what. It worked.

Sorry for the oversight guys, thanks to everyone who posted.


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it happens to us all, I have done it a few times myself Glad I was a help :-)
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