Re: ereg(_replace) help

Would be easier to use: $new = ereg_replace("[^[:alnum:][:punct:]]","",$str); Check the regex.7 man page in the regex dir of the PHP distibution source code. -Rasmus On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Monte Ohrt wrote: > I think I know the syntax for preg_replace(). You include everything in > a character class [], and the leading ^ means a logic NOT. > > $string = > > preg_replace("/[^\w\d\+\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\[\]\{\}\\\|\;\:\'\"\,\.\<\>\/\?\+\=\~\`\_\-]+/","", > $string); > > \w = word character > \d = digit > > everything else is literal. Include each one you wan to keep, and make > sure \- is last in the character class. > > Monte > > Ed Vul wrote: > > > > Uhm... I need to remove every funky character from a string except for > > alphanumeric, and punctuation ... how would I do that. > > I know I use erg_replace, but i don't know how to use that... > > Can someone point me to a regexp tutorial somewhere? > > > > Thanks > > Ed > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> > http://www.ispi.net/ > >