Re: Unwanted Characters
| From: | (Chris Adams) | Date: | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:47:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unwanted Characters | ||
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On 24 Feb 2001 21:31:33 -0800, Clayton Dukes <cdukes@cdukes.com> wrote:
>How do I remove unwanted/unprintable characters from a variable?
>
>$sometext =3D "Th=C0e c=D8ar r=F6=F8an over m=D6y dog"
>needs to be filtered and reprinted as:
>"The car ran over my dog"
Strip everything which isn't in the list of allowed characters:
eregi_replace("[^[:alpha:]]", "", $sometext)