Re: need help with parsing form input ...

eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:].]", "", $string_val); notice the period after the first closing brace. "Kenn Murrah" <kenn@thebytebusiness.com> wrote in message news:00a201c2e7ff$52fc7a30$2d64a8c0@murrahboy... > Thanks ... one more thing: is there a way to modify this to allow a period > (dot) to included, as well as the alha and num characters? > > once again, thanks. > > > > function make_alphanum($string_val) { > return eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:]]", "", $string_val); > } > strips everything except ALPHA and NUM Chars > > > Joel > > > "Kenn Murrah" <kenn@thebytebusiness.com> wrote in message > news:007101c2e7fa$1afcf1a0$2d64a8c0@murrahboy... > > Greetings. > > > > I'm out of my league here, not knowing enough about regular expressions > yet > > to do this, so I desperately need someone's help ... > > > > I need to parse form input to eliminate unwanted characters (punctuation, > > mostly) ... for instance, if the web site visitor types " smith,susan--33" > > into the field, i want to parse that line to eliminate the initial space, > > the comma, and the dashes so that $myvariable=smithsusan33" .... > > > > any help in doing this would be GREATLY appreciate. > > > > thanks. > > > > > >