I'm trying to take a string and remove all "invalid characters" from it. $string="Frid#ays are@ re$ally G{}[]RE~AT. F*rid<>ay at 5 is be^tt&er."; The only characters that should be allowed are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, .(period), -(dash), ;(semi-colon), and :(colon). All other characters should be removed. After "cleaning" the string, the output should be: "Fridays are really GREAT. Friday at 5 is better." Any ideas? Your help is appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php