html special chars wont go away !

[clowes]

This has been bugging me for too long now. I dont understand or appreciate it, and I cant sort it out for the life of me. Help greatly appreciated.

 

So I query a server, and collect some data. I display the data on my page.

The following word:

Interdomain’s

is present. If I view source, it is displayed as

Interdomain’s

 

I want to remove all words after this, so what I do is use strpos to find the position, and then use substr to stop at this point. Simple.

 

If I strpos either Interdomain’s, or Interdomain’s I get nothing....

If I strpos Interdomain, I get the right position... I.E These special chars are preventing me from getting what I want.

 

 

Another example.

The following is displayed:

————————————————————————

 

On viewing source I see:

————————————————————————

 

In this case I simply want to delete these dashes, so I use str_replace(); Putting either of the above into str_replace does nothing....

 

 

Ive tried utilizing strip_tags(); htmlspecialchars_decode(); etc to give just a plain text version... they do absolutely nothing.

 

I am super confused.Help!

[ignace]

please post your code

[clowes]

This query is not specific to a piece of code.

 

It is a general question. Why does strpos and str_replace not work with these html characters essentially.

Thanks

[clowes]

Can anyone help with this?