Is this an encoding issue?

[ballhogjoni]

So I am receiving order information from Amazon.com and writing it to a file to send to my supplier to fulfill the order but some orders have these ^ and @ characters in the address. I've checked the data in Amazon and the order doesn't include the ^ and @ characters. What could my code be doing to add these characters?

 

This is a semicolon delimited file row:

002-8228257;10;^@william lastname^@;^@123 TEST RD^@;^@THE CITY^@;OHIO;12345;8017055555;Y;[email protected]

 

I create a $data array and loop through the orders adding each row into the array. I then use fputcsv to write the rows to the file

foreach ($orders as $order) {
  $data[] = array(
            $order["amazon_order_id"], "10", $order[0]["ship_to_name"],
            $order[0]["ship_to_addr_one"],
            $order[0]["city"], $state, $order[0]["zip"],
            str_replace('-', '', $order[0]["phone"]),
            "Y", "[email protected]"
  );
}

foreach ($data as $row)
      fputcsv($handle, $row, ";", chr(0));

 

[requinix]

Use a different editor to look at the file. It's using a typical representation of control characters by showing them as "^" + chr(64 + code), like how you might see ^C if you hit Ctrl+C with a command-line application.

[ballhogjoni]

Use a different editor to look at the file. It's using a typical representation of control characters by showing them as "^" + chr(64 + code), like how you might see ^C if you hit Ctrl+C with a command-line application.

 

Awesome thanks for that info. This is how I am fixing the issue. Let me know if this is the best way to remove control characters:

str_replace(range("\x00","\x1F"), "", $str)

[requinix]

It's not.

 

fputcsv($handle, $row, ";", chr(0));

You specifically say in your code to use \0 as the quoting character. If you don't want that then don't do it and pick something else. Or let PHP go with the perfectly reasonable default value of an actual quote character.