split() question

Quick question...how can I match multiple chars in a string input? For example, user inputs NAME: Pol E. Wog and I want to store as PolEWog?

tried this but doesn't seem to work?
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$pattern = (" " || ".");
$array = split($pattern, $n);
$n = $array[0].$array[1].$array[2];

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thanks in advance,
Marcel.

How about just putting the name into a string variable and doing this...

$name = ereg_replace (" ", "", $thenamehere);
$finalname = ereg_replace (".", "", $name);

Should work...

Hope this helps

Darren

Aaaaahhhh...was half way there. Thanks yes that's it. Much appreciated.

Marcel.

For your information and perhaps others. You did have one error....
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$name = ereg_replace (" ", "", $thenamehere);
$finalname = ereg_replace (".", "", $name); //error here.

$name = ereg_replace (" ", "", $thenamehere);
$finalname = ereg_replace (".", "", $name); //you have to escape the "." as a regex char.

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🙂 just thought you should know,which i'm sure you already did but overlooked.

Marcel.