Re: Unwanted Characters
| From: | mwaples at waples dot net | Date: | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:28:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unwanted Characters | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Clayton Dukes wrote:
>
> How do I remove unwanted/unprintable characters from a variable?
>
> $sometext = "ThÀe cØar röøan over mÖy dog"
> needs to be filtered and reprinted as:
> "The car ran over my dog"
>
> Thanks :-)
> Clayton Dukes
<?php
$sometext = "ThÀe cØar röøan over mÖy dog";
$thread = ereg_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:]]", "", $sometext);
echo $thread
?>
will print what you asked - of course you may not want numbers but you
get the idea.
I do this check on all my user inputs to php scripts- I choose what is
allowed not what to deny which makes it easier.