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 Posted by IchBin on 06/13/02 11:51 
McHenry wrote: 
> "Ruben van Engelenburg" <ruben@NOSPAM.nl> wrote in message  
> news:44a28738$0$31643$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl... 
>> McHenry wrote: 
>>> For example the following is retrieved as a price however it would be  
>>> easier to extract using a regex if the code was first converted to a  
>>> dollar sign: 
>>> 
>>> <h3> 
>>> 
>>>  $249,000 
>>> 
>>> </h3> 
>> 
>> Hi McHenry, 
>> 
>> You're probably looking for html_entity_decode(): 
>> 
>> <?php 
>> echo html_entity_decode('<h3>$249,000</h3>'); 
>> ?> 
>> 
>> HTH. 
>> Ruben. 
>> 
>> --  
>> http://www.phpforums.nl 
>  
> When I run the example code above it outputs the HTML as it appears above  
> and doesn't convert the ascii codes ?  
>  
>  
 
when I run it I get $249,000 
 
<?php 
echo html_entity_decode('<h3>$249,000</h3>'); 
?> 
 
I am using PHP Designer and PHP version  5.1.4 
 
Thanks in Advance... 
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA              http://weconsultants.phpnet.us 
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