How to remove unwanted characters in JSON String array format PHP

Question

How can I clean Dirty JSON String format ?

For Example from this String

{"AS_applicant_Data__c":"{\\\"Full Name\u00a0\\\":\\\"asdffas\\\"}"}

to this format

{"AS_applicant_Data__c":"{"Full Name":"asdffas"}"}

You could use substr_replace? php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php — James
– James, Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 6:29
I would have tried stripslashes, but you have \u00a0 in the original string. Where did you get this string? — Dave Chen
– Dave Chen, Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 6:42
its from json object that has spaces (original object{"Full Name ":"asdffas"}).. then when I convert it to json string .. the white spaces turns into unwanted characters. — Danryl Tigol Carpio
– Danryl Tigol Carpio, Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 6:48

Rajdeep Paul · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-03 06:43:31Z

2

Use str_replace to remove all occurrences of \ and u00a0 from your json string, like this:

echo str_replace('u00a0', '', str_replace('\\', '', $json_string));

Output:

AS_applicant_Data__c":"{"Full Name":"asdffas"}"}

answered Dec 3, 2015 at 6:34

Rajdeep Paul

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