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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. function foobar($match) {
  4.     if (strtolower($match[1][0]) === 'x') {
  5.         $codepoint = hexdec(ltrim(substr($match[1], 1), '0'));
  6.     } else {
  7.         $codepoint = (int)ltrim($match[1], '0');
  8.     }
  9.     return mb_convert_encoding(pack('N', $codepoint), 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16BE');
  10. }
  11. $str = '&#151;';
  12. var_dump($str);
  13. var_dump( preg_replace_callback('/&#(x[0-9a-f]+|[0-9]+);/i', 'foobar', $str) );
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 13112KB
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string(6) "&#151;"
string(3) "—"
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language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
14 years ago
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