I have some titles, for example:
should? be fenêtre!
ﻟﻔﺮﻧﺴﻴﺔ-تعاني!!!
What regex expression can i use to remove special characters like: ?,!,^
I need to get those titles like this:
should-be-fenêtre
ﻟﻔﺮﻧﺴﻴﺔ-تعاني
I tried
$name = preg_replace("~[\x00-\x2F\x3A-\x40\x5B-\x60\x7B-\x7F]+~", "-", $name);
But i get
Warning: preg_replace(): No ending delimiter '~' found in
Thanks
You can use a couple of regular expressions to strip out anything that is not a letter or a number and condense runs of whitespace and dashes to just a single dash:
// Replaces every non-letter, non-digit with a dash
$str = preg_replace('/(?=\P{Nd})\P{L}/u', '-', $str);
// Replaces runs of whitespace and dashes with a single dash
$str = preg_replace('/[\s-]{2,}/u', '-', $str);
Try this:
$text = preg_replace("/(?![.=$'€%-])\p{P}/u", "", $text);
Just change the assertion to match whatever Unicode characters you want to keep.
