On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello List.
>
> I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and
> underscore.
>
> So instead of having something like:
>
> $moditem = str_replace("--","_","$mystring");
> $moditem = str_replace("?","_","$mystring");
> $moditem = str_replace("!","_","$mystring");
> ....etc.
>
> For every possible character I can think of, is there a way to simply omit
> any character that is not an alpha character and not a number value from 0
> to 9?
>
check the docs, the first parameter may be an array of multiple needles,
e.g.
$moditem = str_replace(array('-', '?', '!'), '_', $mystring);
you could likely do something more elegant w/ preg_replace() tho.
-nathan
