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How can I replace html elements in strings which have mixed content such as:
$str = "Find the element in this string";
I'd like to clear all   ; elements in the string. So, I tried:
str_replace(" ", " ", $str);
I know that   ; is space and renders as empty space, however there is a specific reason I need to do that related to other DB operations i have.
If str_replace doesn't work for HTML tags, should I use regular expressions?
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$str = htmlentities($string, null, 'utf-8');
$str = str_replace(" ", "", $str);