[thelist] preg_replace quickie
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 08:33:23 CDT 2005
On 9/16/05, Alex Beston <alex at deltatraffic.co.uk> wrote:
> hi Evolt
>
> I have a search string and i want to remove anything that isnt a - z
> or A - Z or 0 - 9 replacing with a space character
>
> (using php preg_replace, presumably)
>
> how do i do this?
I would suggest that you do take time to learn regular expressions,
ASAP. It's invaluable.
preg_replace('[^a-zA-Z0-9]', ' ', $subject);
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