[SOLVED] Remove anything but a-z, 0-9 from a string

[Michan]

Hi everyone,

 

I have a string, and would like to convert it to just letters and numbers. I've seen ways of achieving close results, but not yet of the one described below.

 

Let's say $string outputs the following:

 

"Mario Galaxy" is, without doubt, the Wii's #1 game.

 

I'd like $string to strip anything that isn't a character between a - z or 0 -9, and end up looking somewhat like the following;

 

MarioGalaxyiswithoutdoubttheWiis1game

 

How would I get about doing this?

 

Many thanks in advance!

 

- Mi

[pranav_kavi]

try,

 

 

      <?php

 

      $string_to_be_stripped = "Hi, I am a string and I need to be stripped...";

 

      $new_string = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $string_to_be_stripped );

 

      ?>

 

 

[Wuhtzu]

This will do the job:

 

<?php

//I had to escape your string since it contained " and '
$string = '"Mario Galaxy" is, without doubt, the Wii\'s #1 game.';

$new_string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/i", '', $string);

echo $new_string;
?>

[Michan]

Thank you, both methods work perfectly

 

Solved!