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Re: ampersand help

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> Can someone tell me why this line of code doesn't work for replacing
> an ampersand?
> $newstring = str_replace("&", "and", $newstring);

There is no problem in that particular line. Perhaps the problem is 
elsewhere for example in initialization of $newstring ?

What exactly are you trying to do? And what is the content of $newstring?

Maybe a dumb question but are you trying to do this instead?
$newstring = str_replace("&", "&amp;", $newstring); 

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ampersand help bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-02 18:00 -0700
  Re: ampersand help Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-09-02 22:59 -0400
  Re: ampersand help "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-09-04 10:53 -0400
  Re: ampersand help "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-09-04 22:55 +0200

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