string filtering

From: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:38:24 +0000
Subject: string filtering
Groups: php.general 
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Hello all, I need to filter some strings. They can only contain characters like a...z or A..Z and 0..9. Some strings have blank spaces, -,./?>,< characters that must be discarded. I wrote a function to check each and every character but I guess there must be something else more efficient. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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