Thanks!

Why does preg_replace("^\W^","",$str); not remove undescores _ ?  Are they
alpha-numeric?

I had to do this preg_replace("^\W|_^","",$str);

TIA,
Shawn

"John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:000201c27eab$f4ea0500$7c02a8c0@;coconut...
> > I need to replace all NON alpha-numeric characters in a string.
> >
> > Example:
> >    input:  "-What's Up Doc?"
> >    output: "WhatsUpDoc"
> >
> > I received this in a previous post, but it doesn't work:
> >    $str = ereg_replace("/[^[:alnum:]]/i", '', $str);
>
> Use preg_replace() with that string, not ereg_replace().
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
>



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