I am writing some code to create a google base feed and I need to remove all of the ®, ™ etc from the product descriptions. My problem is that I need a regular expression that I can use to look for the pattern: & [any series of characters]; (ampersand[any characters] semicolon). Can anyone help with this regular expression?
Thanks
Simmy
<?php
$reg = '/(&.*?;)/is';
$data="® This is a registered company. > < is replaced by a whitespace.";
$rep="";
echo preg_replace($reg,$rep,$data);
?>This is an example in php. $reg is the pattern that you want to search for. $data is a string which you want to search for the pattern. $rep is 'what' you want to replace $reg with.
I dont know much about the syntax of regex in .net, but the logic remains the same.
Hope it helps.
Nav
regex syntax is the same, just the precoding and postcoding is different.
www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html
will give you a nice tutorial.
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