Re: Removing UTF-8 from text

Dotan Cohen wrote:

On 03/01/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

Instead of trying to strip the UTF stuff out, try to capture the part you want: preg_match_all('|<[^>]>|ms', $emails, $output); var_dump($output);

Richard, I do have a working script now, but I'm intrigued by your regex. Why do you surround the needle with pipes, and what is the "ms" for?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php lists what the modifiers do. As others have mentioned, you can use anything as delimiters. Sometimes it's easier to change the delimiter rather than worrying about escaping it - for example when doing a regex for urls.. so instead of: /http:\/\/ etc etc / (hard to read) change the delimiters: #http:// etc etc # -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/