If you’re like everyone else in programming you’ve learned to HATE Microsoft’s implementation of HTML and how badly they’ve screwed up the web. Here is a quick function to use to clear out a few common special characters and replace them with standard ones. This is quick and dirty, but it works great. If you have extra resources you know of or more characters that I should include, post a comment down below.
Go from this:
There’s a “Problem†with Microsoft Word… it posts a – bunch of crap into the text.
To this:
There’s a “Problem” with Microsoft Word… it posts a – bunch of crap into the text.
function SanitizeFromWord($src = '') {
$src = str_replace("‘", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("’", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("”", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("“", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("–", "-", $src);
$src = str_replace("—","-",$src);
$src = str_replace("…", "...", $src);
return $src;
}
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still no go, i copy and past the above and they both look like regular dashes. both dashes are the same length. how did you get the long one?
You want to use the em dash.
function SanitizeFromWord($src = ”) {
$f = array(“‘”,”’”,”””,”“”,”–”,”—”,”…”);
$t = array(“‘”,”‘”,'”‘,'”‘,”-“,”-“,”…”);
return str_replace($f, $t, $src);
}
I always prefer shorter code..