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[Chris Bielanski]

This deserves to be in a KB of some kind... I like that it'll even catch the
em-dash!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Convissor [mailto:danielc at analysisandsolutions.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] stupid curly quotes
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Marc Antony Vose wrote:
> > 
> > How do people here handle stripping crap like curly quotes 
> out of text 
> > that users are pasting from Microsoft Word?
> 
>     $search = array(
>         '/[\x07\x95]/',
>         '/\x85/',
>         '/[\x91\x92]/',
>         '/[\x93\x94]/',
>     );
>     $replace = array(
>         '-',
>         '...',
>         '\'',
>         '"',
>     );
>     $data = preg_replace($search, $replace, $data);
> 
> --Dan
> 
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