$stripansi(<text>)

This function returns <text>, except that all ascii characters from 14 to 31 (inclusive) except for 15 and 22 (^O and ^V) have been converted into their printable ascii equivalents. The net effect is that all ESCape sequences in <text> have been mangled safely.

This function is not useful and is maintained for backwards compatibility. You should use $stripansicodes() instead.

The input string with control characters mangled into submission.

$stripansi($*)             make sure default input has no ESCs