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preg_replace issue, unicode block?


Mudsaf

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So i'm not still really familiar with regex and how does it work, but i have issue with my code. I have ¤ in my text and it gets replace with unicode ? block. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block) for me and I don't get why.

Here is the code I'm using.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
#kool { width:800px; border:groove; margin:0 auto; padding:25px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
/* Test preg_replace function */
$preg_pattern = "/[^A-Za-z0-9!\"#%£&()=@\s]/";

if (isset($_GET['preg'])) {
echo "<div id='kool'>";
echo "<b>Original string: </b> " . $_GET['preg'];
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Preg pattern: </b> " . $preg_pattern;
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Result: </b> " . preg_replace($preg_pattern,"",$_GET['preg']);
echo "</div>";
}

?>
<form method="get" action="preg_test.php">
<input type="text" name="preg" <?php if (isset($_GET['preg'])) { echo " value='" . $_GET['preg'] . "'"; }  ?>> <input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

And here is the string I'm trying to use.

Test 0-9, Specialcharacters: !"#¤%&/()=?

Result image below

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Any guides / help appreciated.

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Your code editor most likely has not encoded the file as UTF-8. Depending on which code editor you're using the way to do this is different. On Windows Notepad, there's an "encoding" dropdown in the same dialog which you should set to "UTF-8". Other text editors have encoding menus or an encoding option in the document properties.

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Changed to UTF-8 (not sure if it were already), issue still persists somehow. The odd part is, this works when the £ is not added in the preg pattern.

result3.PNG.7c6868eddfb179e2a2dbf2f8401b6f69.PNG

 

Edited by Mudsaf
had wrong image
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Apparently my browser forces ¤ to be at url, even though i replace it with %C2%A4 (if this was what you meant). Rest of the stuff is encoded properly (chrome). But on edge it is encoded.

result4.thumb.PNG.d60fbabbfe5caddcaa3dacb1cc4233cd.PNG

(Image from Edge browser)

Also  tried urldecode the GET parameter.

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On 8/19/2019 at 8:57 PM, justsomeguy said:

I would use ord or mb_ord to loop through the characters in the string and print the value of each byte to see what's actually there.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-ord.php

The unicode block symbol returned value of 194 via ord() function, got any idea what might be the cause to create that unicode block?

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Source code of tester below, string too.

 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
#kool { width:800px; border:groove; margin:0 auto; padding:25px; }
.mid { margin:0 auto; max-width:800px; text-align:centeR; margin-top:10px; }
#preg_input { width:300px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
/* Test preg_replace function */

// #%&()=@£\$€\[\]_\-,.:?
$basic = "A-Za-Z0-9";
$preg_pattern = "/[^A-Za-z0-9!\"#%£&()=@\s]/";
$func_preg_replace = preg_replace($preg_pattern,"",$_GET['preg']);
if (isset($_GET['preg'])) {
echo "<div id='kool'>";
echo "<b>Original string: </b> " . $_GET['preg'];
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Preg pattern: </b> " . $preg_pattern;
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Result: </b> " . $func_preg_replace;
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Rawurl: </b> " . rawurlencode($_GET['preg']);
echo "<hr>";
echo "<b>Ord: </b> ";
	for ($i=0;$i<strlen($func_preg_replace);$i++) {
	echo $func_preg_replace[$i] . "(" . ord($func_preg_replace[$i]) .  ") ";	
	}
echo "</div>";
}

?>
<div class="mid">
<form method="get" action="preg_test.php">
<input type="text" id="preg_input" name="preg" <?php if (isset($_GET['preg'])) { echo " value='" . $_GET['preg'] . "'"; }  ?>> <input type="submit">
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

And the string without

What is love 0-9, Specialcharacters: !"#¤%&/()=?

Does it reproduce for you guys?

----

Also tried to UTF-8 encode string via php, the preg_replace string, 2 new unicode blocks appeared with �(195) �(130).

$func_preg_replace = utf8_encode ($func_preg_replace);

 

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7 minutes ago, justsomeguy said:

Add the u modifier to your pattern:

 


/[^A-Za-z0-9!\"#%£&()=@\s]/u

 

Not sure what kind of sorcery is this, but it works now. Thank you!

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From the manual:

u (PCRE_UTF8)
This modifier turns on additional functionality of PCRE that is incompatible with Perl. Pattern and subject strings are treated as UTF-8. An invalid subject will cause the preg_* function to match nothing; an invalid pattern will trigger an error of level E_WARNING. Five and six octet UTF-8 sequences are regarded as invalid since PHP 5.3.4 (resp. PCRE 7.3 2007-08-28); formerly those have been regarded as valid UTF-8.
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