Re: [PHP] regexp question - extracting wanted ascii characters only?

2001-04-04 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 11:23, you wrote: Is it possible through the regexp to specify that I only want some of the ASCII characters from the binary stream? Here is the perl equivalent: /([\040-\176\s]{3,})/g I want only those words that are minimum 3 characters and I want the

RE: [PHP] regexp question - extracting wanted ascii characters only?

2001-04-04 Thread Jorg Krause
From: Erick Papadakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, I need to do a simple thing. I want to read a binary file (e.g., microsoft word, excel etc) and then extract only the text from it. I am using simple fopen() and fread() and when I print out the contents of the file, it returns me