Im having problems with a regex. I am trying to do a preg_replace on a
string using a regular expression which replaces a non A-Z, a-z, 0-9
character with "" (empty string" . In other words i just want to
remove all non A-Z, a-z and 0-9 characters. However spaces are ok.
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:43:38 +0200, Moham12345
wrote:
> Im having problems with a regex. I am trying to do a preg_replace on a=
> string using a regular expression which replaces a non A-Z, a-z, 0-9
> character with "" (empty string" . In other words i just want to
> remove all non A-Z, a-z and 0-9 characters. However spaces are ok.
$string =3D preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9 ]/i','',$string);
Allthough, depending on the exact yse, you might be better served with:
$string =3D preg_replace('/[^\w ]/i','',$string);
From the manual about '\w':
"A "word" character is any letter or digit or the underscore character, =
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that is, any character which can be part of a Perl "word". The definitio=
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of letters and digits is controlled by PCRE's character tables, and may =
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vary if locale-specific matching is taking place. For example, in the "f=
r" =
(French) locale, some character codes greater than 128 are used for =
accented letters, and these are matched by \w."
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Rik Wasmus