I'm a newbie...be gentle

[flashguy97]

Hi,

I have a pretty large text file in which I'm trying to exclude any characters that arent numbers, letters or periods. Basically I want anything that's an odd character to be deleted or shown to me so I can delete it(?'s, /'s, etc.). I found the script below that might be a beginning. I'm pretty new to PHP (this is my second time around at using it) so please go easy on me.

<?php
$search_term = '?'
$array = file('c:/php/list.php'); //list.php is my text file
foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
if (strpos($value, $search_term) !== False)
{
$line = $key + 1;
echo $search_term . ' was found on line #' . $line . '<br>';
}
}
?>

thx

[Spookster]

Judging by your thread title it seems pretty obvious you didn't read our posting guidelines as we require everyone to do before posting in the forums. I'd recommend reading them now. See posting guidelines.

[rlemon]

Originally Posted by Spookster

Judging by your thread title it seems pretty obvious you didn't read our posting guidelines as we require everyone to do before posting in the forums. I'd recommend reading them now. See posting guidelines.

well your attempt seems like it would do little to nothing as per what your trying to acheive. and... LOL that title is called out exactly. thats funny.

what you wanna do (or what i would do) is run a preg_match() on the valid characters and extract them all into an array. probably much easier than parsing.

[angst]

well, instead of busting your balls, ( like everyone else seems to be doing here ;-)

try this:

$MyString = preg_replace('/[^0-9a-z]/i','',$strValue);

[rlemon]

Originally Posted by angst

well, instead of busting your balls, ( like everyone else seems to be doing here ;-)

try this:

$MyString = preg_replace('/[^0-9a-z]/i','',$strValue);

or preg_replace, i just thought you might want all 'valid' values to be split out.

and i wasn't busting his balls. i was just saying. its' funny.

[flashguy97]

yay, it works! thx

[angst]

haha, i was just bugging,
glad it worked out for you.

cheers,
-Ken