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How to parse characters in a single-quoted string?

To get a double quoted string (which I cannot change) correctly parsed I have to do following:

$string = '15 Rose Avenue\n Irlam\n Manchester'; 
$string = str_replace('\n', "\n", $string);
print nl2br($string); // demonstrates that the \n's are now linebreak characters

So far, so good. But in my given string there are characters like \xC3\xA4. There are many characters like this (beginning with \x..) How can I get them correctly parsed as shown above with the linebreak?

Solution

  • You can use

    $str = stripcslashes($str);