[SOLVED] Is there a function in php?

[ballhogjoni]

Is there a function in php that will decode this to regular characters?

 

so instead of this:

\074\141\040\150\162\145\146\075\042$l1dt\042\076\074\142\076

 

It would be this:

<a href="$l1dt"><b>

 

I use the ascii table, and decode it by hand, but i want to write a program that will do it automatically.

[Lumio]

All of the characters are a little invalid... because I get the following string:

J(–¢‘’K*$l1dt*LJŽL

Doing this code:

<?php
$str = '\\074\\141\\040\\150\\162\\145\\146\\075\\042$l1dt\\042\\076\\074\\142\\076';

echo preg_replace_callback('/(\\\\[\d]{3})/', "replaceChar", $str);

function replaceChar($arr) {
	return chr(substr($arr[1], 1));
}
?>

[ballhogjoni]

none of the characters are invalid. if you use the ascii table they are correct.

[mpharo]

this what your lookin for?

 

chr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

 

chr — Return a specific character

 

Description

string chr ( int $ascii )

 

Returns a one-character string containing the character specified by ascii.

 

Example 2306. chr() example

 

<?php

$str = "The string ends in escape: ";

$str .= chr(27); /* add an escape character at the end of $str */

 

/* Often this is more useful */

 

$str = sprintf("The string ends in escape: %c", 27);

?>

 

 

 

You can find an ASCII-table over here: » http://www.asciitable.com.

 

This function complements ord(). See also sprintf() with a format string of %c.

 

 

 

[ballhogjoni]

basically I want to be able to plug octal code like this: "\074\141\040\150\162\145\146\075\042$l1dt\042\076\074\142\076" into a form, and then I want to the form to output the transalation.

[mpharo]

Then this function will do that, you will just need to feed it the results one by one with a loop...