This returns an error
$q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
Parse error: parse error in d:\hosting\http\philipsdomain\config.php on line
41
Suggestions?
----- Original Message -----
From: "CC Zona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: Arrrr The Space is gone.
> In article <002801c1a6ed$1a9c10a0$0401a8c0@philip>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip J. Newman) wrote:
>
> > $q=preg replace("/[ \W]/","",$q);
> >
> > I have this to remove all the bad things, but it takes out the space to
...
> > )o; why?
>
> There's a space in your character class, so of course it will be among the
> characters matched/replaced. But merely deleting it from the character
> class doesn't solve the problem either, since a space character also meets
> the criteria for "not a word character" (\W). If the objective is to
strip
> all characters that are neither a space nor a "word" (a-zA-Z0-9_), then
try:
>
> $q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
>
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