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Ezekiel

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I am writing a form/php script to automate the process of making an xml.
In this process I am trying to strip the '£' from a particular variable, and add '& # 163 ;' (sic) in it's place. With that I don't seem to be having very much luck.
This is the code I am using at the moment. Any help is greatly appreciated.

$sign = '&#163';

$pos = strpos($salary, '£');

if ($pos === false){
 
  $newsalary = $sign.$salary; // add '&#163' to the $salary var

}else{

  $newsalary = trim($salary, '£'); // remove the £ and add '&#163'; instead
}
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Use str_replace to convert £ into & #163 (without the space):
[code]$sign = '& #163;'; // remove the space betweeen & and #
$salary = '£100';

$pos = strpos($salary, '£');

if ($pos === false){

  $newsalary = $sign.$salary; // add £ to the $salary var

}else{

      $newsalary = str_replace('£', $sign, $salary); // remove the £ and add £ instead
}

echo $newsalary;[/code]
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In statement
[code]$newsalary = trim($salary, '£'); // remove the £ and add £ instead
[/code]
I can see that you remove the char, but where do you add the new one instead?

Anyway, you could have done this more compact:
[code]
$sign = '&#163';
$newsalary = $sign.trim($salary, '£');
[/code]

Ronald  ;D
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Thankyou very much.

It works, tho there is a small niggle.

This is what seems to be echod with $newsalary after the £ has been changed. (for a £20 salary)

¦#163;20

which seems to indicate that there is something wrong with the &, possibly because this is a character that php itself uses? or...
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[quote author=ronverdonk link=topic=102724.msg408130#msg408130 date=1154531815]
In statement
[code]$newsalary = trim($salary, '£'); // remove the £ and add £ instead
[/code]
I can see that you remove the char, but where do you add the new one instead?

Anyway, you could have done this more compact:
[code]
$sign = '&#163';
$newsalary = $sign.trim($salary, '£');
[/code]

Ronald  ;D
[/quote]

Trim doesn't seem to work. I added your code to what I had, re submitted the data and came out with ££20
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This worked for me:
[code]<?php
$salary = '£20';
$newsalary = str_replace('£','£',$salary);
echo $salary . ' ' . $newsalary;
echo '<pre>' . htmlentities($salary . ' ' . $newsalary) . '</pre>';
?>[/code]

BTW, if you use
[code]<?php $newsalary = htmlentities($salary); ?>[/code]
then $newsalary would contain the string '&pound;' instead of the '£'.

Ken
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Oh yes, the trim works allright! But the pound is not in the string, not the sign you typed in anayway. See the following piece of code:
[code]
<?php
$a="£50";
$sign = '£';
$newa = $sign.trim($a, '£');
echo $newa;
?>[/code]
The result is Pound50.

Ronald  8)
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