preg_match_all total newbie

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2004-01-08, Something <*****@*****.***> wrote:

> Just learning PHP (4.3.4). I seem to understand most. But one little
> problem I couldn't figure out:
> I need to be able to take a string (as 'Smith, Charly') and run it
> through some sort of filter that only lets through the letters so
> 'SmightCharly' is returned. I have tried my luck with some of the grep
> functions but am totally unsuccessful. If nothing else I could write a
> little function to do this but there's gotta be a better way.

Define "better"?

Just remove all characters that are not in the interval [a-zA-Z].
str_replace will do just fine.

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[Bryan Chan]

To remove non-alphanumeric characters:

$sFiltered = eregi_replace("[^a-z0-9]", "", $sString);

Where $sString contains "Smith, Charly", the statement would return
$sFiltered contains "SmithCharly". [^...] implies character class "not"
containing specific characters.

Hope it helps. :-]

Bryan

"Something" <*****@*****.***> wrote in message
news:*****-1533D1.01534708012004@news.indiana.edu...

> Just learning PHP (4.3.4). I seem to understand most. But one little
> problem I couldn't figure out:
> I need to be able to take a string (as 'Smith, Charly') and run it
> through some sort of filter that only lets through the letters so
> 'SmightCharly' is returned. I have tried my luck with some of the grep
> functions but am totally unsuccessful. If nothing else I could write a
> little function to do this but there's gotta be a better way.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Peter
>
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