I have a string with “\u00a0”, and I need to replace it with “” str_replace fails

Question

I need to clean a string that comes (copy/pasted) from various Microsoft Office suite applications (Excel, Access, and Word), each with its own set of encoding.

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Answer 1

This one also works, i found somewhere

$str = trim($str, chr(0xC2).chr(0xA0));

Answer 2

You have to do this with single quotes like this:

str_replace('\u00a0', "",$string);

Or, if you like to use double quotes, you have to escape the backslash - which would look like this:

str_replace("\\u00a0", "",$string);