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xml · 01-08-2006, 06:32

Skidzy McFergus,
Do you anticipate unicode characters in the string?

If so try this:
$cleanUnicodeStr = trim(preg_replace('#[^\p{L}\p{N}]+#u', ' ', $unicodeStr));

This will also clean up shitty unicode punctuation like those smily faces, musical quotations and stars etc, whilst at the same time allow for Japanese symbols and other such characters.

01-08-2006, 06:32	#3 (permalink)
xml Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 149	Skidzy McFergus, Do you anticipate unicode characters in the string? If so try this: $cleanUnicodeStr = trim(preg_replace('#[^\p{L}\p{N}]+#u', ' ', $unicodeStr)); This will also clean up shitty unicode punctuation like those smily faces, musical quotations and stars etc, whilst at the same time allow for Japanese symbols and other such characters. __________________ Martin Gallagher