> im reading in a string from a database, this string will become a file
> name.
> so i need to strip everything BUT lowercase a-z and 0-9. well im
> strtolower
> so i dont need to worry about upper case. blank spaces get replaced
with _
$filename = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/","_",$data);
Replace _ with whatever you want to replace anything that's not (^) a-z
or 0-9.
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