Thank you both Jason and Curt...
Looks like I was pretty close...
In fact, I found a fault in my logic, too, that meant only some but not all
instances of $element were being validated, even after i got the preg
function right! But it's all working great now.
- john
> >
> > As John has previously suggested the best way to go about this is to
remove
> > anything which is not in the set of acceptable characters, which for the
> > above is:
> >
> > $new = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z-\()\s]/', '', $old);
> >
> > Then check that $new is not empty().
>
> or if $new != $old, bad characters exist.
>
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