[PHP] need help with parsing form input ...

2003-03-11 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings. I'm out of my league here, not knowing enough about regular expressions yet to do this, so I desperately need someone's help ... I need to parse form input to eliminate unwanted characters (punctuation, mostly) ... for instance, if the web site visitor types smith,susan--33 into the

Re: [PHP] need help with parsing form input ...

2003-03-11 Thread Justin French
Space at the beginning or end of a string can be removed with trim(). In order for someone to write you a regexp, you need to change your question to the following: I need to ensure a string only has the following characters in it: A-Z a-z 0-9 Can someone please help me write a regexp which

Re: [PHP] need help with parsing form input ...

2003-03-11 Thread Jason k Larson
How about: preg_match_all ('/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/', $subject, $matches); HTH, Jason k Larson Justin French wrote: Unfortunately, I'm no good with regexp's, so you'll have to hope someone who IS reads your post :) Justin French on 12/03/03 5:14 AM, Kenn Murrah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings.