special chararcters

[sachinphp]

Has anybody dealt with special characters like paragraphs and tab marks, posted from a form to a PHP program? I would like to strip them out from the form variable string.

Thanks

[Anon]

Try trim(), ltrim(), or rtrim().

[cheald]

Also, how about a RE?

$chars = array("\n","\t");

foreach($chars as $c)
$text = eregi_replace("$c","",$text);

Just modify the array to contain the characters you want to strip.