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preg_replace help

Jun 29th, 2009

What I require is to replace \/:"?<*>| with a space.

I have done similar statements before but I have complete brain freeze at the moment. Hoping one of you can jog my memory. Always hated regex expressions never understood the logic behind them minus the A-Z and 0-9 and then all the brackets, etc. Blah!
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$pattern = // This where I require the regex expression
$replacement = " ";
$string = "a\b/c:d*e?f"g<h>i|j";
$test_string = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
echo $test_string;
 
$pattern = // This where I require the regex expression
$replacement = " ";
$string = "a\b/c:d*e?f"g<h>i|j";
$test_string = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
echo $test_string;

Last edited by OmniX; Jun 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm.

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Re: preg_replace help

Jun 29th, 2009

If you want everything accept for letters and numbers you can use

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$pattern = '/[^a-z0-9]/i';

If you are specific about \/:"?<*>| then it's this

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$pattern = '#[\/:"\?<\*>|]#';
$pattern = '#[\/:"\?<\*>|]#';

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