Question

This is the string, which I am trying to clean up.

 '&#13;        &#13;    <span>CR - CROPLAND</span>&#13;'

This is my calling statement:

 trim(strip_tags(clean_string($leftTd->innerhtml())))

This is the function I tried to clean it up with, but it does not work.

 function clean_string($string){
   for($control = 0; $control < 32; $control++) {
      $string = str_replace(chr($control), "", $string) ;
   }
   return $string ;
}

I also tried :

 // $string = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9\-\./,']", " ",$string) ;

, but it does not work.

Help!
Specifically I am trying to get rid of 
. what exactly is it. Googling does not help\

Thanks

Answer 1

Before running replacement, decode the HTML entities with html_entity_decode().

function clean_string($string){
   $string = html_entity_decode($string);
   //replace here
   return $string ;
}