Re: Arrrr The Space is gone.

In article <002801c1a6ed$1a9c10a0$0401a8c0@philip>, newmanpj@philipsdomain.com (Philip J. Newman) wrote: > $q=preg replace("/[ \W]/","",$q); > > I have this to remove all the bad things, but it takes out the space to ... > )o; why? There's a space in your character class, so of course it will be among the characters matched/replaced. But merely deleting it from the character class doesn't solve the problem either, since a space character also meets the criteria for "not a word character" (\W). If the objective is to strip all characters that are neither a space nor a "word" (a-zA-Z0-9_), then try: $q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q); -- CC