eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:].]", "", $string_val);
notice the period after the first closing brace.
"Kenn Murrah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks ... one more thing: is there a way to modify this to allow a
period
> (dot) to included, as well as the alha and num characters?
>
> once again, thanks.
>
>
>
> function make_alphanum($string_val) {
> return eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:]]", "", $string_val);
> }
> strips everything except ALPHA and NUM Chars
>
>
> Joel
>
>
> "Kenn Murrah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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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