Replace Single Quote (apostrophe)

[DonP]

This has me pulling my hair out as I don't see anything wrong. It is working for the other characters/spaces except that the apostrophe is not being replaced:

$Characters = array("  ", chr(39), "'", " ");
$StringReplace = array(" ", "", "", "_");
$DocName = str_replace($Characters, $StringReplace, $DocName);

I tried the str_replace() function both as individual lines and as the array above, I tried escaping the character and I tried the chr(39) code. Does someone have better eyes to see why it won't work? There are no error messages yet the apostrophe remains.

Don

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[jpadie]

try this:

$Characters = array("  ", chr(39), "'", " "[red],chr(146)[/red]);
$StringReplace = array(" ", "", "", "_"[red],""[/red]);
$DocName = str_replace($Characters, $StringReplace, $DocName);

 

[DonP]

Good suggection but actually I had thought of that. As the apostrophe is in a file name, which I failed to mention, it seemed unlikely if not impossible for it to be a Word character. Unfortunately that theory seems correct as it is not a Word apostrophe.

What's happening is that it is not replacing the apostrophe but rather the name is being cut off and is only showing the part after it. Saying that, I just realized that the problem is likely a more basic one and is probably being cut before it even gets to this code. Any thoughts? Otherwise thanks for the suggestion.

Don

http://www.pc-homepage.com/

http://www.personalzone.net/

Experienced in HTML, Perl, PHP, VBScript, PWS, IIS and Apache and MS-Access, MS-SQL, MySQL databases

 

[jpadie]

do some debugging on the shape/contents of the variables before and after you parse them. i think your assumption sounds right though.