Okay I am getting some out put from my application/script. that is entirely predictable in its pattern. I want to remove a few characters from it and replace them with spaces. any ideas.

Example output from my script

10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists (DM)��/dw�http://www.specialistsmod.net�http://www.specialistsmod.net�����������

10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists (DM)��/dw�http://www.specialistsmod.net�http://www.specialistsmod.net�����������

I would like to get rid of the ? and replace them with " " <- spaces

Where each ? represents an line break / new value from the server

I tried explode but with un desirable effects

I don't really understand what you are trying to do, but if im guessing right then using explode should work for you. I don't know what delimiter you used for explode, but I would give "?" a shot as a delimiter. So it would look like this:

PHP Code:

$data = "
10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists (DM)��/dw�http://www.specialistsmod.net�http://www.specialistsmod.net�����������";

$holder = explode( "?", $data ); 


This will return an array with all the data divided by where the ? marks were at. So $holder[0] would equal 10.0.0.4:27015 and $holder[1] would equal "Jons POS Server". Then if you were wanting newlines you could use a loop to iterate through the array and output it to the screen. Hope this helps!

What i am tryin to do is this

Above said data is collected from an active hlds server

this line generates said above output

PHP Code:

$status = $this->RconCommand("\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFTSource Engine Query\x00"); 


Have tried the following

PHP Code:

$test = str_replace("?"," ",$status);
echo $test;
$testa = explode("?", $status);
echo $testa[0]; 


All i want it done now is broken apart so it can be formated for the output
final output

Server Name  	
Current Map 	
Players 	/
Server Status 	Server Online

$string = "10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists... bla bla";
$string = str_replace("�", " ", $string);

Originally Posted by vectorialpx

$string = "10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists... bla bla";
$string = str_replace("�", " ", $string);

when i tried the str_replace it dont work as expected. actually it dont work as it just shows the same formating.

<?php
$string = "10.0.0.4:27015�Jons POS Server�blackmarket_b4_v10�ts�The Specialists... bla bla";
$string = str_replace("�", "<br />\n\r", $string);
print $string;
?>

works fine to me

PS: the SPACE was just an example

i think i found some of my problem

The parsed info to the browser is ? but it is is not an offical utf-8 format and is a special char. but I dont know what char is.

Is there a way to get the ascii char id or decimal format? so i can use that in the str_replace function.

Or is there to just echo the syntax out in its raw form with out being converted to characters?

the out put is a square instead of the ?

not to sound like a pia but the input is to get said about out put is "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFTSource Engine Query\x00" which is part hex, and the code coming back is also part hex

And php appears to be automaticly converting the returned packet when echoed to the browser. but when it is being altered in the script it is still in the hex form. So how would i start by converting it or finding all the hex values of each char on the return

yeah... it's a ugly char

if it was a normal (ie all utf-8 chars) when php was processing it, it would be working. but since it is still in a hex form is why i am having issues.

So any way to convert the hex to a normal chars? so then it can be processed

you have
$status = $this->RconCommand("\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFTSource Engine Query\x00");

print htmlspecialchars($status);

what is this?

it seems to output the same data... still wont break it up correctly

the ? character is not really a question mark.
It's an UTF-8 character which current charset in use on your computer have no representation for.
So, searching for ? will not help you.

Proceed in those steps to determine what the character is:
1° Get the string in a variable.
2° For each characters of your string, call

PHP Code:

 echo ord($string[$position]); 


This will give you the ASCII value of the character.
3° When you have isolated the ASCII value, do a str_replace using chr($asciiNbr) as the character to look for

ord() reference: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php
chr() reference: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php
This should resolve your issue.

thanks tripy

that helped alot, in fact the ? was a null char. Problem solved, YES thank you

+rep