RE: [PHP] regexp question - extracting wanted ascii characters only?

> From: Erick Papadakis [mailto:erick_papadakis@yahoo.com] > > Hi, > > I need to do a simple thing. I want to read a binary > file (e.g., microsoft word, excel etc) and then > extract only the text from it. I am using simple > fopen() and fread() and when I print out the contents > of the file, it returns me the text but apart from the > text, there is some junk which is probably because of > the file being binary. > > Is it possible through the regexp to specify that I > only want some of the ASCII characters from the binary > stream? Here is the perl equivalent: > > /([\040-\176\s]{3,})/g > > I want only those words that are minimum 3 characters > and I want the characters to match the ASCII numbers > from 40 to 176. > You can use the regex likewise to perl. Try it here: http://www.php.comzept.de/rexpr/index.php4 Instead of the /g option use the function preg_grep() in PHP. Read the file in an array with file(), then grep through the array with the regex to get the right lines. Want a string? implode() without delimiter. Joerg Krause ****************************************************** E-Mail: joerg@krause.net Info: www.joerg.krause.net German Reference Handbook: www.php.comzept.de/referenz ******************************************************