String pattern [A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9] characters

imranlink

Hi,

I want to write a PHP Function in such a way that should return only [A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9] character from a string and disgard other character from it.

For example the string values

part_numbers

MP-97
987/plt543-009
bbbPPP trww\d2_99

will return

MP97
987plt543009
bbbPPPtrwwd299

the result should have no space,dashes,slases. Result only have [A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9] character.
Please help me to write such "String pattern" of preg_match_all fucntion. I should be much thankfull.

laserlight

You might want to use [man]preg_replace/man instead.

Swardh

try using preg_match_all()

Something like this

<?php

$string = "bbbPPP trww\d2_99";

preg_match_all('/[a-z]+|\d+/is', $string, $match);
$string = implode($match[0]);

echo $string;

?>

laserlight

That's a rather long winded way of doing it, but oh well:

<?php

$string = "bbbPPP trww\d2_99";

$string = preg_replace('/[^0-9A-Za-z]/', '', $string);

echo $string;

?>

imranlink

Thanks. Its really solve my Problem. Great Help.