Anyone know how to strip all non-english alpha from string?

Hi all,

I have a string ($str). I am trying to remove everything that is not an ENGLISH letter from a to z or number from 0 -9.

My string has some foreign chars in it like †and ? and ! and % and who knows what else.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

$str=preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/","",$str);

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thanks. Not sure how I got on the wrong track. I was trying some other stuff with not much luck.