so whats the difference between yours and :
$filename = ereg_replace ("[^a-z^0-9^/.^=^/-]", "", $filename);Andy "Alexander Skwar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... »Rasmus Lerdorf« sagte am 2002-03-18 um 07:12:21 -0800 : > $new = preg_replace('/[^a-z]/i','',$old); > > Note that this will also get rid of the - in this case since you > specifically asked for something that got rid of everything not a-z Yes. And to not get rid of the -, you need to specify it as the 1st charcter, or in your case, as the 2nd: $new = preg_replace('/[^-a-z]/i','',$old); How do you allow [ and ]? $new = preg_replace('/[^[]-a-z]/i','',$old); Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 1 day 4 hours 22 minutes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
