clear-string

string utility package for clearing special characters

Install

$ composer require try/clear-string

Usage

<?php
require_once '/path/to/autoload.php';

use TryPhp\stripControlCharacters;

$clearedString = stripControlCharacters("Some Special\nMultiline String"); 
echo $clearedString; // will output "Some Special Multiline String";

API

Functions

stripControlCharacters($contents)

Function to strip control characters from a string. The function will replace \n and \t with a simple whitespace and remove any other control character (\0, \a, \b, \v, \f,\r, \e). So it cleans up the output and allows a more precise text comparison.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
$contents	string	The string that will be cleared.

stripColorCharacters($contents)

Function to remove escape characters (\e) with following color code (e.g. \e[33m) from a string.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
$contents	string	The string that will be cleared.

License

GPL-2.0 © Willi Eßer