[RESOLVED] preg_replace special characters

[perpetualshaun]

Okay, so I'm wondering how I can replace just a couple special characters from the string. We have a client that has product names that include ® and ™ symbols in the title. And when I create a mailto: link w/ the product name in the ?subject=, it shows some strange characters around those two symbols.

So how can I strip out those two specific characters from the string?

I tried this, but it doesn't work.

str_replace('®|™', '', $prd['prd_titl'])

Any ideas?

[FatalError]

Um...in your example you used str_replace...you need preg_replace.

[perpetualshaun]

Oops... oh yeah, I was getting an error from the preg_replace, so I changed it to str_replace. So here it is w/ the preg:

preg_replace("®|™", "", $prd['prd_titl'])

And that returns this error on the screen:

Warning: preg_replace(): No ending delimiter '�' found in ...

And that string value is empty.

[perpetualshaun]

Did some more hunting around on the boards here, tried some different keywords in my search than yesterday I guess, and this works:

ereg_replace("[^[:alnum:] ]", "", $prd['prd_titl'])