Look at the chr() function - figure out what the character is (number wise) and
then do an ereg_replace(chr(),'',$string) (from the hip - you can do a replace
with chr() on one of the replaces, I've done it before)

--Joe

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:34:21AM -0500, Clayton Dukes wrote:
> 
> How do I remove unwanted/unprintable characters from a variable?
> 
> $sometext = "ThÀe cØar röøan over mÖy dog"
> needs to be filtered and reprinted as:
> "The car ran over my dog"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks :-)
> Clayton Dukes
> 

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