Regular Expression for Special Character

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Arunv, Oct 9, 2009.

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    Hello, I want regular Expression for special character for validation. I have search in the google but I have not got sufficiant answer......!! So, can any one tell me..
     
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  2. JAY6390

    JAY6390 Peon

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    What special character exactly?
     
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    Test it with PHP regular expression tester
     
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    If you're trying to remove/strip special characters, try this (removed everything but letters, numbers, and spaces)...

    function strip_special($str) {
 return preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9[:space:]]/', '', $str); 
}
    PHP:
     
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