>>I am pulling a lot of text from web pages. With it comes quite a bit of code(ish) looking unwanted characters and snippets.
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>>Is there an efficient way to delete the unwanted text without removing all or part of the text I want along with it?
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>Check the page encoding. If it's UTF-8 or such, you may need to convert the text using strconv() once or twice.

Thanks for the replies, folks. It'll, at last, be very warm today, so I'll be in the cool basement, at the keyboard, if you need me :-)