Nybie question consering char replace

Hi,

I'm trying to do a simple thing: to remove "(" -char from a string. I have
tried the following:

echo $word . "<br>";
$changedWord = str_replace("(", "", $word);
echo $changedWord . "<br>";

but $changedWord still has a "(" in it.

$changedWord = ereg_replace("\(", "", $word);
doesn't work neither.

Thanks!

Esko Piirainen wrote:
> I'm trying to do a simple thing: to remove "(" -char from a string.
> I have tried the following:
>
> echo $word . "<br>";
> $changedWord = str_replace("(", "", $word);
> echo $changedWord . "<br>";
>
> but $changedWord still has a "(" in it.
>
> $changedWord = ereg_replace("\(", "", $word);
> doesn't work neither.
>

Are you sure that '(' is literal in $word and not as another representation
like an entitity (e.g.: ()?

When this is the case, you should do something like:

$changedWord = str_replace(array("(", "("),"", $word);


JW