Re: Strip Everything But Letters and Numbers?
| From: | Jason Davidson | Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:58:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Strip Everything But Letters and Numbers? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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i think with perl regs.. as preg_replace is, you can just use a shortcut
command..
\w is any word char,
\d is any digit..
im not sure it will improve this solution any, but its something else :P
Jason
Marek Kilimajer <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote:
>
> Jeff Oien wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to strip out everything but letters and numbers
> > from a string? I tried searching the archives and didn't come up with
> > much. Thanks.
> > Jeff
> >
>
> $string = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '', $string);
>
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