Thanks ... one more thing: is there a way to modify this to allow a period
(dot) to included, as well as the alha and num characters?
once again, thanks.
function make_alphanum($string_val) {
return eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:]]", "", $string_val);
}
strips everything except ALPHA and NUM Chars
Joel
"Kenn Murrah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Greetings.
>
> I'm out of my league here, not knowing enough about regular expressions
yet
> to do this, so I desperately need someone's help ...
>
> I need to parse form input to eliminate unwanted characters (punctuation,
> mostly) ... for instance, if the web site visitor types " smith,susan--33"
> into the field, i want to parse that line to eliminate the initial space,
> the comma, and the dashes so that $myvariable=smithsusan33" ....
>
> any help in doing this would be GREATLY appreciate.
>
> thanks.
>
>
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