Clean strings with regular expressions

17-Oct-2007
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Filed under: PHP, Regular expressions

The following case-insensitive regular expression snippet will strip all non-alphanumeric characters from $string.

<?php
$string = 'abc123_%$£';
$string = preg_replace("/[^a-z\d]/i", "", $string);
echo $string; // Result: abc123
?>
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