How to match horizontal ellipse (…) in php

Question

I want to replace the horizontal ellipse (…) with three period (...)in a given string.
Till now I have tried are:

str_replace('…','...', $text);
str_replace('…', '...', $text);
str_replace('&hellips', '...', $text);

But not able to get the desired output. Can you please suggest some method for it.

EDIT:
One more problem I am facing related to this is when I paste the ~…~u character in my editor (I am using Editplus). the ... are converted into a rectangle. (see screenshot). enter image description here

Thanks

The first will work, but you need to instruct your editor that the file is UTF-8. This will also fix the "edit" problem. — Jon, May 20 '13 at 10:06
Your first method [should work fine](http://3v4l.org/Q4p51). I'd say that you are simply guessing what that char is from a visual inspection of the HTML-rendered view. Additionally, I'm curious about why you think you need to remove that char. — Álvaro González, May 20 '13 at 10:09
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario for the reason of not working see my edit part of question. The reason I want to remove is that when I am processing the text I want to exempt puncutation character from it like period, comma and this ellipsis. — jimy, May 20 '13 at 10:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '13 at 09:50

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try to use preg_replace with the /u modifier (the string is treated as an unicode string):

$result = preg_replace('~…~u', '...', $string);

answered May 20 '13 at 09:50

Casimir et Hippolyte

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@jimy: try to type yourself the character – Casimir et Hippolyte May 20 '13 at 10:13
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How can I do that? which key (or combination) on keyword will give that ? – jimy May 20 '13 at 10:16

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '13 at 09:51

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Try This

str_replace('&#8230;', '...', htmlentities($text));

answered May 20 '13 at 09:51

Sudz

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No luck... the ellipsis is converted into some wired characters when htmlentities is applied – jimy May 20 '13 at 10:05
This worked for me: `str_replace('…', '', htmlentities($str));` – Portable Page Mar 15 '16 at 13:59
Works, but encodes all html in the string too, for example if you use this for WordPress (more…) link. `str_replace( '…', '', $str);` works to just replace the hellip sign. – RemBem Dec 24 '21 at 11:19

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 24 '21 at 11:17

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This works:

str_replace( '&hellip;', '', $str);

answered Dec 24 '21 at 11:17

RemBem

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How to match horizontal ellipse (…) in php

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