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Jürgen Paul
Jürgen Paul

Reputation: 15007

Convert special quotes to regular quotes

I am trying to parse html and I have a string which has weird quotes:

‘3’

How do I convert their character-encoding to the regular '?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 489

Answers (1)

Jonathon Reinhart
Jonathon Reinhart

Reputation: 137398

Shamelessly taken from Convert Smart Quotes back to normal:

<?php
function convert_smart_quotes($string) {
    //converts smart quotes to normal quotes.
    $search = array(chr(145), chr(146), chr(147), chr(148), chr(151));
    $replace = array("'", "'", '"', '"', '-');
    return str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}
?>

Found via: "php convert curly quotes".

Upvotes: 3

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