Re: Stripping Characters
| From: | Rick Dwyer | Date: | Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:35:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Stripping Characters | ||
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Thanks to everyone who responded.
Regarding the myriad of choices, isn't Ashley's, listed below, the one most like to guarantee the cleanest output of just letters and numbers?
--Rick
On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:40 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Use preg_replace(), which allows you to use a regex to specify what you want to match: $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; $replace = '_'; $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk