title: How to remove all ASCII codes from a string
body: <p>My sentence include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII" rel="nofollow">ASCII</a> character codes like </p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;#x0022;&amp;#x0023;&amp;#x0024;&amp;#x0025;
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  <p>How can I remove all ASCII codes?</p>
  
  <p>I tried <code>strip_tags()</code>, <code>html_entity_decode()</code>, and <code>htmlspecialchars()</code>, and they did not work. </p>