PhP character comparison problem...

[Mandragon03]

I am trying to strip the ¿ and ¡ from some Spanish phrases in my
database. I pull the query data from the MySql database (using PhP)
and I know it is returning the correct rows because I have verified
it by printing it out in Firefox.

When I try this:

if( substr($PhrasesRow[0], 0, 1) == "¿" || substr($PhrasesRow[0], 0,
1) == "¡" )

or

if( mb_substr($PhrasesString[0], 0, 1) == "¿" || mb_
substr($PhrasesString[0], 0, 1) == "¡" )

it never makes it into the 'if' block even though I have verified
there are phrases that meet this criteria.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get it to recognize that these
phrases start with '¿' or '¡' ?

Thanks for your ideas,

Mandragon

[NC]

On Jul 10, 3:23 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

>
I am trying to strip the ¿ and ¡ from some Spanish phrases
in my database.

And in what encoding is the Spanish text stored in the database?
Additionally, are you sure that "¿" and "¡" are stored as such, rather
than, say, "¿" and "¡"?

Cheers,
NC

[macca]

On Jul 10, 11:23*pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I am trying to strip the ¿ and ¡ from some Spanish phrases in my
database.

$find = array('¿','¡','¿',;¡');

$PhrasesString = str_replace($find,'',$PhrasesString);