A little pointer please?

Maybe I'm not looking the right way, but I'm not finding what I need through search so could I get a bit of help please?

I have a line of code that replaces anything that is not a letter or number with "-"

$text = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9]', '-', $text);

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But I also need to add in the "~" character to the list of ones not replaced. How do I do that? I tried these

$text = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9~]', '-', $text);
$text = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9\~]', '-', $text);
$text = ereg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9/~]', '-', $text);

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But every one of them still replaced the "~" with a "-". So obviously I'm missing something, probably pretty basic knowing me lol.

Thanks!

 

echo preg_replace('|[^0-9a-zA-Z~]|', '-','"0889-507-asd~222##');

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$text = ereg_replace('|[^A-Za-z0-9~]|', '-', $text);

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Just returns a whole bunch of errors to me. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

 

use preg_replace

 

Hmmmm

$text = preg_replace('|[^A-Za-z0-9~]|', '-', $text);

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goes back to replacing the "~" with a "-".

Also tried

$text = preg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9~]', '-', $text);
$text = preg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9\~]', '-', $text);
$text = preg_replace('[^A-Za-z0-9/~]', '-', $text);
$text = preg_replace('|[^A-Za-z0-9\~]|', '-', $text);
$text = preg_replace('|[^A-Za-z0-9/~]|', '-', $text);

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and they do too. Any other suggestions? Thanks for the help!

 

$text = preg_replace('~[^\w]~', '~', $text);

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I gave it a try danx10, it does the same thing. Guess I'm gonna be stuck with it the way it is. Thanks anyways everybody.

 

I can't stand Regex either. It looks perfect but still doesn't work.

 

Mine should work as it would replace all a-zA-Z0-9 with - (and NOT replace the ~ character)

Which is what your description suggests you wanted?

 

Ummmm not quite lol. Sorry if I didn't explain it clearer. I need to replace any character that is NOT in the set (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ~) with a "-". Right now it replaces anything that is not in the set (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) but I'm looking to add "~" to that set of characters not being replaced.

For example, if you feed "~All cats are furry-usually~" into it, right now it spits out "-All-cats-are-furry-usually-" and I'm looking to make it spit out "~All-cats-are-furry-usually~" instead.

Thanks!

 

Hey, providing I actually understood what you're after (seems straight forward) this will do it!

$content = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9~]/', '-', $content);

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Let me know if that helps ya!

 

Yea, that did it. Thanks!