Regular Expressions, stripping everything but letters, space

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ForgottenCreature
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Regular Expressions, stripping everything but letters, space

Post by ForgottenCreature »

How do I go about removing everything in a string besides letters, spaces, and digits?

So far I have

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

That takes care of the letters and digits, but not the spaces.

Help?
timvw
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Post by timvw »

Have you already tried to add a simple ' ' to your list of characters? Probably want to lookup what \s shortcut does too.
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