Matching non-[a-zA-Z] characters in PHP regex

Question

I have some strings that need a-strippin':

ÃœT: 9.996636,76.294363

Tons of long strings of location codes. A literal regex in PHP won't match them, IE

$pattern = /ÃœT:/;
echo preg_replace($pattern, "", $row['location']);

Won't match/strip anything. (To know it's working, /T:/ does strip the last bit of that string). What's the encoding error going on here?

Alternately, I would accept a concise way to take out just the numbers.

You see all of these letters I am typing? They are all pretty weird to me. — Tyler Carter
– Tyler Carter, Commented Apr 21, 2010 at 3:43

Josh K · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-21 03:47:07Z

2

If the text is all in that format (: followed by a space) you can probably just say:

$str = explode(": ", $pattern);
echo($str[1]);

It's not the most elegant solution per-se and I have no idea if this is incredibly slow, but it works for most things. Unless you're hell bent on using regular expressions that is.

answered Apr 21, 2010 at 3:47

Josh K

28.9k20 gold badges89 silver badges132 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

Edson Medina · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-06 08:28:37Z

0

You need to use the /u modifier on your regex to work with unicode

answered Jul 6, 2012 at 8:28

Edson Medina

10.3k4 gold badges43 silver badges53 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Matching non-[a-zA-Z] characters in PHP regex

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related