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benton · 07-20-2009, 01:56 AM

The following code, the way I understand it, is supposed to strip all punctuation characters from the string. From what I've found on the web, a space is not one of those characters. But the code below outputs "abstractmodern." Would someone please explain how I can strip all special characters except the spaces?

PHP Code:


			
$pattern = "([[:punct:]])"; 

$str = "abstract modern"; 

$str = ereg_replace($pattern, '', $str)); 

echo $str;

07-20-2009, 01:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
benton The Contributor Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 78 Thanks: 0	Using regex The following code, the way I understand it, is supposed to strip all punctuation characters from the string. From what I've found on the web, a space is not one of those characters. But the code below outputs "abstractmodern." Would someone please explain how I can strip all special characters except the spaces? PHP Code: `$pattern = "([[:punct:]])"; $str = "abstract modern"; $str = ereg_replace($pattern, '', $str)); echo $str;`