$before = array("&");
$after = array("&");
$text = str_replace($before, $after, $text);

The above code will replace an occurance of an ampersand in a string with it's HTML equivalent. How can this be done for a quotation mark (") ? I have tried backslashing it, but that gave me parse errors.

Anyone know?

Cheers,
Rupe

Rupe Parnell
www.starsol.co.uk

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Rupe Parnell
www.starsol.co.uk

Use it's chr ASCI code: str_replace(chr(34), """, $text);

Dan

Unreal... The forum kept deleting my "&" from "#34;"
                                              ^^^^
Ak! Make that "ampersand-hash-thrityfour-semicolon"!

Bloody ASP...

Thanks Daniel .

Rupe Parnell
www.starsol.co.uk

Regular expression strings are tricky at best sometimes, especially when dealing with characters that need to be escaped.

You might also try using a single-quoted string to avoid the first round of variable substitution and escaped character conversion.

'\"' is parsed literally as two characters, where as
"\"" is parsed as just the one. You need the two-character version for your regular expression, I think.


However, this all begs the question, why not just use htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars()?
  http://www.php.net/htmlentities
  http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars





Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/