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Posted by McHenry on 10/10/90 11:51
"IchBin" <weconsul@ptd.net> wrote in message
news:iMKcnZphKs4J6T7ZUSdV9g@ptd.net...
> 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
Output displayed in the browser ? Maybe the browser is converting the ASCII
however it is still being fed the raw codes by PHP
If you output the function to a txt file you'll find it's still the raw
codes...
>
> <?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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