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I found this article that showed how to remove the “” quotation marks that surrounded the text.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/does-bp_member_latest_update-take-arguments/

I wanted to remove both the quotation marks “” and the dash -.

members-loop.php

I replaced

<?php bp_member_latest_update(); ?>

with the following.

<?php
    $latestupd = html_entity_decode(bp_get_member_latest_update('length=24'));                  
    $latestud = str_replace(str_split('-"'), ' ', $latestupd);            
    echo $latestud;
    ?>

This limits the text output printed to 24 characters and removes the starting dash and the surrounding quotation marks.

On my Members page instead of users activity showing:

– “This is my last post.”

It now shows.

This is my last post.