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rogue780
rogue780

Reputation: 155

preg_match() adding nonsense character

I'm trying to match DMS latitude/longitude. I've run into a bit of a snag, though. I can detect the pattern so far, but the match keeps returning a nonsense character next to a special character. Here is my code:

//Begin code
$pattern = '/[0-9]{1,3}[:| |\x{00B0}]{0,1}[0-9]{1,2}[\']{0,1}[0-9]{1,2}["]{0,1}[N|S|E|W]/ui';
$value = "12°30'23\"S";
preg_match($pattern,$value,$matches);
print_r($matches);
//End code

and here is the output:

Array ( [0] => 12°30'23"S )

As you can see, an undesired  exists between the 12 and the °.

Please help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (1)

Peter Smith
Peter Smith

Reputation: 889

Have you verified the charset is set to UTF-8 or Unicode in the HTTP headers? See this page for more info on PHP and Unicode: http://ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-unicode/index.html

Upvotes: 1

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