removing noncharacters......

[crawfd]

I wanna remove everything else but a-z in my source file ........and replace everything that is not a-z with nothing. I have the below example (but it's getting a parse error). Actually is there an easier way to remove noncharacters (e.g. !@$*$%) from my source file.

<?

$q = $stringoftext 
$search = array (""'#'","'$'","'%'","'&'","'\'","'/'","'@'","'!'","'('","')'","'['","']'","'.'","'+'","'-'","'*'","'{'","'}'","'?'""); 
$replace = array (""); 
$body = preg_replace ($search, $replace, $q); 

?>

[The_Chancer]

$searchtext = ereg_replace("[^<>[:alpha:]/]","",$searchtext);

Should remove anything non alphabetical... 🙂

[laserlight]

The ereg functions are pretty much deprecated, so you should use preg_replace() as in your code snippet. The idea however, is the same:

$searchtext = preg_replace('/[^a-z]/', '', $searchtext);

Note this is removes everything is this not a lowercase alphabetic character, including uppercase characters.

[The_Chancer]

Meh - I should really not rely on old knowledge, been a while since reading / posting need to keep up with the times 😉