I want to remove all HTML codes like " € á ... from a string using REGEX.
String: "This is a string " € á &"
Output Required: This is a string
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5How to remove html special chars?.s7anley– s7anley2012-05-30 06:50:23 +00:00Commented May 30, 2012 at 6:50
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I am new to regex and want to create something which will index words from a webpage.Sukanta Paul– Sukanta Paul2012-05-30 06:52:29 +00:00Commented May 30, 2012 at 6:52
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1Since you just want to get words, why not instead write a regex that finds all the words (ignoring anything with characters other than a-z and certain punctuation)?Okonomiyaki3000– Okonomiyaki30002012-05-30 06:57:41 +00:00Commented May 30, 2012 at 6:57
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you can try
$str="This is a string " € á &";
$new_str = preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i",'',$str);
echo $new_str;
i hope this may work
DESC:
& - starting with
# - some HTML entities use the # sign
?[a-z0-9] - followed by
;- ending with a semi-colon
i - case insensitive.
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If you're trying to totally remove entities (ie: not decoding them) then try this:
$string = 'This is a string " € á &';
$pattern = '/&([#0-9A-Za-z]+);/';
echo preg_replace($pattern, '', $string);
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$str = preg_replace_callback('/&[^; ]+;/', function($matches){
return html_entity_decode($matches[0], ENT_QUOTES) == $matches[0] ? $matches[0] : '';
}, $str);
This will work, but won't strip € since that is not an entity in HTML 4. If you have PHP 5.4 you can use the flags ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 to have it work correctly with HTML5 entities like €.
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preg_replace('#&[^;]+;#', '', "This is a string " € á &");
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Try this:
preg_replace('/[^\w\d\s]*/', '', htmlspecialchars_decode($string));
Although it might remove some things you don't want removed. You may need to modify the regex.
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