[2008] How to get rid of these odd characters?

[blazen2009]

I've built a scraper that input text in a text file, but I am seeing these odd things beside the text that look like small "[]". These are not letters numbers, brackets, etc. I tried trim() but that will not get rid of them.

[Negative0]

Odds are they are a character that cannot be displayed. If you can figure out what the character is (possibly from the byte code) you should be able to do a replace with "" on them to get rid of them.

[mickey_pt]

I think those characters are not printable code, like the Enters, Ctrls, etc.

So you only need to do what Negative0 tell you...

[Atheist]

Or, if these symbols appear as normal characters if you'd open the textfile elsewhere, it'd mean that you arent using the proper encoding when reading the file.