Re: regex - filtering out chinese utf8 characters

Hi Merlin, I think the pattern you're looking for is '/[a-zA-Z0-9]/' which will match all alphanumeric characters. Cheers Stuart On 30 Jul 2009, at 19:13, Merlin Morgenstern wrote:

Hi there, I am trying to filter out content that is not ascii. Can I do this with regex? For example: $regex = '[AZ][09]'; if (preg_match($regex, $text)) { return TRUE; } else { return FALSE; } The reason I need to do this is that I am doing a mysql query with the text and I need to make sure it is not UTF8. Otherwise I do get following error: Error: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' I am new to regex and would be happy for a jump start to get this fixed. Best regards, Merlin --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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