Comments on: PHP Tricks: Eliminate any unwanted characters from a string http://www.johnrockefeller.net/php-tricks-eliminate-any-unwanted-characters-from-a-string/ A refreshing take on digital art, web development, and emerging technology. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 51st Blog Post! Celebration time! | John Rockefeller's Bloghttp://www.johnrockefeller.net/php-tricks-eliminate-any-unwanted-characters-from-a-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 51st Blog Post! Celebration time! | John Rockefeller's Blog Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:20:01 +0000 http://www.johnrockefeller.net/?p=226#comment-1462 [...] and foremost, the most popular article on this blog is How to eliminate unwanted characters from a string in PHP. In the world of a web developer, your skill levels increase faster than the world spins. If I were [...] [...] and foremost, the most popular article on this blog is How to eliminate unwanted characters from a string in PHP. In the world of a web developer, your skill levels increase faster than the world spins. If I were [...]

]]> By: Johnhttp://www.johnrockefeller.net/php-tricks-eliminate-any-unwanted-characters-from-a-string/comment-page-1/#comment-22 John Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:08:41 +0000 http://www.johnrockefeller.net/?p=226#comment-22 You can just replace this <code> preg_match_all ("/[^0-9^a-z^_^.]/”, $string, $matches);// Loop through the matches with foreachforeach ($matches[0] as $value) {$string = str_replace($value, "", $string);} </code With this <code> preg_replace ("/[^0-9^a-z^_^.]/”, "", $string); </code> You can just replace this

preg_match_all ("/[^0-9^a-z^_^.]/”, $string, $matches);

// Loop through the matches with foreach

foreach ($matches[0] as $value) {

$string = str_replace($value, "", $string);

}
</code
With this

preg_replace ("/[^0-9^a-z^_^.]/”, "", $string);

]]> By: A » Blog Archive » PHP Tricks: Eliminate any unwanted characters from a stringhttp://www.johnrockefeller.net/php-tricks-eliminate-any-unwanted-characters-from-a-string/comment-page-1/#comment-20 A » Blog Archive » PHP Tricks: Eliminate any unwanted characters from a string Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:13:37 +0000 http://www.johnrockefeller.net/?p=226#comment-20 [...] PHP Tricks: Eliminate any unwanted characters from a string Hi all. I’ve been looking for a handy/graceful way to do this for a while and I thought I’d share this little php trick with you in the hopes that it’ll save you some time if you ever need it. If anyone reading this can quickly convert this example into other languages such as perl, coldfusion, ruby, c, c++ please be my guest and post it as a comment or as a trackback to this blog. What I wanted to do I wanted to scrub any characters out of a string that were not alphanumeric. That is, not [...] [...] PHP Tricks: Eliminate any unwanted characters from a string Hi all. I’ve been looking for a handy/graceful way to do this for a while and I thought I’d share this little php trick with you in the hopes that it’ll save you some time if you ever need it. If anyone reading this can quickly convert this example into other languages such as perl, coldfusion, ruby, c, c++ please be my guest and post it as a comment or as a trackback to this blog. What I wanted to do I wanted to scrub any characters out of a string that were not alphanumeric. That is, not [...]

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