Have you read up on regular expressions? They'll do just what you're looking
for:
<?php
ereg_replace('[ab\.\,\ ]','',$string); // remove 'a', 'b', '.', ','
?>
http://www.php.net/ereg_replace
--Joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:49 AM
To: Joe Stump
Subject: RE: [PHP] strtr question
Yes this would be great only I'm not substituting a single character
found in a filename but a host of characters found in filenames.
Ed
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Joe Stump wrote:
> You could do this a number of ways:
>
> eregi(), ereg() or str_replace() ...
>
> <?
>
> $string = "What's up?";
> $string = str_replace("'",'',$string);
> echo $string."\n";
>
> ?>
>
> That will output "Whats up?"
>
> --Joe
>
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> Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> "Label makers are proof God wants Sys Admins to be happy."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] strtr question
>
>
>
> I want to remove unwanted characters from filenames of files uploaded to
> our server. I am currently using strtr to do this. I have a few characters
> that are being removed but I would also like a single quote to be removed
> if it is in the filename. I think it has to be escaped in the command
> though. How do I do this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Ed
>
>
>
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