Assuming I have a sting which is "a s d d" and htmlentities turns it into
"a s d d".

How to replace (using preg_replace) it without encoding it to entities?

I tried preg_replace('/[\xa0]/', '', $string);, but it's not working. I'm trying to remove those special characters from my string as I don't need them

What are possibilities beyond regexp?

Edit String I want to parse: http://pastebin.com/raw/7eNT9sZr
with function preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', "[##]", $text)
for later implode("</p><p>", explode("[##]", $text))

My question is not exactly "how" to do this (since I could encode entities, remove entities i don't need and decode entities). But how to remove those with just str_replace or preg_replace.

Assuming I have a sting which is "a s d d" and htmlentities turns it into
"a s d d".

How to replace (using preg_replace) it without encoding it to entities?

I tried preg_replace('/[\xa0]/', '', $string);, but it didn't remove the characters.

What are the possibilities beyond regular expression?

My question is not exactly "how" to do this (since I could encode entities, remove entities I don't need and decode entities). But how to remove those with just str_replace or preg_replace.

Assuming I have a sting which is "a s d d" and htmlentities turns it into
"a s d d".

How to replace (using preg_replace) it without encoding it to entities?

I tried preg_replace('/[\xa0]/', '', $string);, but it's not working. I'm trying to remove those special characters from my string as I don't need them

What are possibilities beyond regexp?

Assuming I have a sting which is "a s d d" and htmlentities turns it into
"a s d d".

How to replace (using preg_replace) it without encoding it to entities?

I tried preg_replace('/[\xa0]/', '', $string);, but it's not working. I'm trying to remove those special characters from my string as I don't need them

What are possibilities beyond regexp?

Edit String I want to parse: http://pastebin.com/raw/7eNT9sZr
with function preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', "[##]", $text)
for later implode("</p><p>", explode("[##]", $text))

My question is not exactly "how" to do this (since I could encode entities, remove entities i don't need and decode entities). But how to remove those with just str_replace or preg_replace.