Found a fake white space(a character similar to white space) in php code

Question

I got hundreds of errors in a PHP code which i just copied from a website. But i don't see any problems in that code(100% sure). Now i noticed that,this errors are because white spaces in that codes are not real white spaces(they are just looking similar to white spaces).

Please let me know what character it is.?

• Binary code of that character is: 1100001010100000

• Hex of that character is : a0

            

Answer 1

Make a replacement of that character with a regular space?

In NotePad++ you can use regular expressions to match characters.

Hey, you can even build a tiny PHP script to perform the replacement task for you!

Answer 2

There are no unusual characters between the brackets—they must have been lost by the time they reached your post.

But 0b11000010,0b10100000 is 0xC2,0xA0, which is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00A0 Non Breaking Space. That's the character HTML's   refers to. Some text editors will highlight it (and other non-ASCII spacing characters of various sorts).

Answer 3

When you have problems like this, it's often best to paste the code into a programmers editor. It will generally strip all formatting and "fancy stuff" and leave you with only plain ASCII.

I wish the COPY default was not "copy with all kinds of formatting and special codes and background colors and blinky lights"... but it is. ;)