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AndyGpy [ Sun 19 Jul, 2009 22:22 ]
Post subject: PHP Help Please, Removing Characters From A String

Hi Guys

I have a string eg

"
19/07 07:54 BORDERS : Red-backed Shrike, St. Abbs Head NNR [R]
male at the lighthouse garden and showing well yesterday afternoon (18/07)

19/07 07:56 ABERDEENSHIRE : Grey Phalarope, Loch of Strathbeg RSPB [R]
no sign at Starnafin Farm but adult Mediterranean Gull, 6 Little Gulls, Ruff and 30+ Great Skuas north

19/07 07:58 ANGUS & DUNDEE : Ruddy Shelduck, Montrose Basin [R]
two still at The Lurgies; also 2 Green Sandpipers and 10 Greenshank (18/07)

I want to remove the areas in RED, how can i do it

What i have is a script that watches for an email and breaks the message part ready for uploading to an mysql database for displaying on a website. it works but the bits in red i want to strip out

Any ideas how using PHP i can remove these areas in the large string ?

regards

buldo [ Sun 19 Jul, 2009 22:31 ]
Post subject: Re: PHP Help Please, Removing Characters From A String

Topic moved.

Mighty Gorgon [ Wed 22 Jul, 2009 12:41 ]
Post subject: Re: PHP Help Please, Removing Characters From A String

Use str_replace function:

http://it.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Or

str_ireplace() - Case-insensitive version of str_replace
substr_replace() - Replace text within a portion of a string
preg_replace() - Perform a regular expression search and replace
strtr() - Translate certain characters