Strings punctuation

[common]

Hi

 

I have a string but want to remove all the punctuation... I know that str_replace() function works, but can only remove one kind of punctuation mark.

 

Thanks

[MiCR0]

/**

* Strip punctuation from text.

*/

function strip_punctuation( $text )

{

    $urlbrackets    = '\[\]\(\)';

    $urlspacebefore = ':;\'_\*%@&?!' . $urlbrackets;

    $urlspaceafter  = '\.,:;\'\-_\*@&\/\\\\\?!#' . $urlbrackets;

    $urlall        = '\.,:;\'\-_\*%@&\/\\\\\?!#' . $urlbrackets;

 

    $specialquotes  = '\'"\*<>';

 

    $fullstop      = '\x{002E}\x{FE52}\x{FF0E}';

    $comma          = '\x{002C}\x{FE50}\x{FF0C}';

    $arabsep        = '\x{066B}\x{066C}';

    $numseparators  = $fullstop . $comma . $arabsep;

 

    $numbersign    = '\x{0023}\x{FE5F}\x{FF03}';

    $percent        = '\x{066A}\x{0025}\x{066A}\x{FE6A}\x{FF05}\x{2030}\x{2031}';

    $prime          = '\x{2032}\x{2033}\x{2034}\x{2057}';

    $nummodifiers  = $numbersign . $percent . $prime;

 

    return preg_replace(

        array(

        // Remove separator, control, formatting, surrogate,

        // open/close quotes.

            '/[\p{Z}\p{Cc}\p{Cf}\p{Cs}\p{Pi}\p{Pf}]/u',

        // Remove other punctuation except special cases

            '/\p{Po}(?<![' . $specialquotes .

                $numseparators . $urlall . $nummodifiers . '])/u',

        // Remove non-URL open/close brackets, except URL brackets.

            '/[\p{Ps}\p{Pe}](?<![' . $urlbrackets . '])/u',

        // Remove special quotes, dashes, connectors, number

        // separators, and URL characters followed by a space

            '/[' . $specialquotes . $numseparators . $urlspaceafter .

                '\p{Pd}\p{Pc}]+((?= )|$)/u',

        // Remove special quotes, connectors, and URL characters

        // preceded by a space

            '/((?<= )|^)[' . $specialquotes . $urlspacebefore . '\p{Pc}]+/u',

        // Remove dashes preceded by a space, but not followed by a number

            '/((?<= )|^)\p{Pd}+(?![\p{N}\p{Sc}])/u',

        // Remove consecutive spaces

            '/ +/',

        ),

        ' ',

        $text );

}