Re: Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end?

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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.
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