Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· jamsouf

Remove annoying control characters from string

Some control characters (like the null or the bell character) can't be displayed as readable text. Commonly copy and paste is the reason. You don't need them in your string.

$str = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x09\x0B-\x1F\x7F]/', '', $str);