Re: Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:57:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:12 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Is there a command to strip all non-alphanumerics form the beginning
> and end of a string?
>
> Ex.: '&^%kj.h,kj..*(' becomes 'kj.h,kj'
<?php
$text = ereg_replace( '^[^[:alnum:]]+', '', $text );
$text = ereg_replace( '[^[:alnum:]]+$', '', $text );
?>
Cheers,
Rob.
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