Re: Removing special characters

On 7/14/05, Computer Programmer <myprogram@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a PHP built-in function to retrieve only the alphanumeric > characters from a given string? > > I know that I can check for alphanumeric characters using the > function ctype_alphanum () but it won't retrieve the alphanum characters. > > I also know that I can use str_replace to replace an array of special > characters such as the example below: > > $str = "I*m using <html tags> with special/chars like | how to get > rid of it???"; > $removeChars = array > ('*','?','|','>','<','/','\\'); > $str = str_replace ($removeChars, "", $str); > > However, could there be a specific function for just retrieving > alphanumeric characters? or a specific function for just stripping > special characters? Or maybe a better way to do those things from the > example given above? > > Thanks in advance. :) > Try this: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.recode-string.php Dotan http://x-christmas.com Christmas