On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:12 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > Is there a command to strip all non-alphanumerics form the beginning > and end of a string? > > Ex.: '&^%kj.h,kj..*(' becomes 'kj.h,kj' <?php $text = ereg_replace( '^[^[:alnum:]]+', '', $text ); $text = ereg_replace( '[^[:alnum:]]+$', '', $text ); ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php