Stripping unwanted characters
Posted: 20 Apr 2010, 05:31
Hi
A forum I am a member of has just upgraded its software. The result is pretty good, but a major distraction is that formatting has gone haywire in the process of moving posts across from the old version. For instance, quote tags did not translate properly. In the course of the upgrade all tags turned from
to something like
which of course stuffs things right up. The same thing happens with other functions, such as [image], and so on.
Manually sweeping through three quarters of a million legacy posts is of course not viable, so my question is this: Is there a program that can go through those posts and strip those surplus characters automatically?
Thanks in advance.
A forum I am a member of has just upgraded its software. The result is pretty good, but a major distraction is that formatting has gone haywire in the process of moving posts across from the old version. For instance, quote tags did not translate properly. In the course of the upgrade all tags turned from
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[quote]someone sad something[/quote]Code: Select all
[quote:eca9270a64]someone said something[/quote:eca9270a64]Manually sweeping through three quarters of a million legacy posts is of course not viable, so my question is this: Is there a program that can go through those posts and strip those surplus characters automatically?
Thanks in advance.