On 29 Sep 2004 George Pitcher wrote:
> The problem is that I think that some of my users are pasting the range in,
> rather than re-typing (I don't really want to stop them from pasting) and I
> am sure that sometimes the '-' is coming over as something other than a
> conventional hyphen.
>
> Can anyone suggest a filter that will handle my hyphens correctly,
> regardless of what type of hyphen the user is entering?
You probably don't need ereg_replace (though if I did, I'd actually use
preg_replace), you can probably do it more simply with str_replace.
But first you have to know what characters you're actually getting.
Say they are '*', '_', and '~' (just an example), then you can do it
easily with:
$newstring = str_replace(array('*', '_', '~'), array('-', '-', '-'),
$string);
Or with:
$newstring = preg_replace('/[*_~]/', '-', $string);
Another approach would be to replace all non-alphanumeric characters
(other than commas) with a '-', then you are treating all punctuation
characters as dashes:
$newstring = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9,]/', '-', $string);
But that might be overkill ...
--
Tom
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