Strip all charactors but A-Z, a-z and 0-9.... how?

[jasonc]

Been looking at php.net all morning and still can not work out how these string commands work.

how do i strip all but the A-Z and a-z and 0-9 charaters from a string?

thanks



example.

string = "a^bc de*fgAB$CDE@:FG1:2 34 5'[]~=-]*&^%"

becomes

string = "abc defgABCDEFG12 34 5"

and also allow for <returns> or newline or carridge returns of what ever there called when you hit enter.

[redarrow]

$strip = "a^bc de*fgAB$CDE@:FG1:2 34 5'[]~=-]*&^%";

$striped=stripslashes($strip);

echo $striped;


use str_replace put the unwanted words in an array then str_replace.

[kenrbnsn]

For this you want to use the [a href=\"http://www.php.net/ereg_replace\" target=\"_blank\"]ereg_replace()[/a] function:
[code]<?php
$strip = "a^bc de*fgAB$CDE@:FG1:2 34 5'[]~=-]*&^%";
$strip = ereg_replace("[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9*_.-]", "",$strip);
echo $strip;
?>[/code]

Ken