Re: [PHP] &

[Tom]

Gerard Samuel wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:32 am, Stuart wrote:
>
>> Diana Castillo wrote:
>>
>>> is there any function that will always replace a "&" with a "&amp" in a
>>> string?
>>
>>
>> $string = str_replace('&', ' ', $string);
>>
>
>
> Just a heads up on using the above method.
> If there are more than one & in the string it will produce unexpected 
results.
> For example
> "Here is one & and here is another &"
> will produce
> "Here is one & and here is another &"
>

You could use preg_replace( '/&(?!amp;)/', '&', $string);
But I suspect that the OP is probably looking for "htmlentities"
and other such built in PHP functions.
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