Re: Dealing with spaces and punctuation in uploaded filenames (tjlq)

On Sunday 14 July 2002 09:20, Tim Luoma wrote: > and this is what I was trying to use to remove the space and punctuation > (all one line, might wrap in email): > > $SAFEFILENAME = ereg_replace ("[[:punct:]]+[[:blank:]]+", "", $FILENAME); > > But that does not seem to be working, and I have not been able to figure > out why. What the above seems to be doing is replace: a series of one or more punctuation marks FOLLOWED BY a series of one or more spaces Which is not what you want. Presumably anything which isn't alphanumeric is classed as either space or punctuation? If so: I prefer preg_replace so try: $SAFEFILENAME = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/', '', $FILENAME); *** Untested use with caution *** -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very reassuring to know that it's still there. */