Punctuation removal

[Hierophant]

In PHP what would the regular expression be to remove all punctuation from a string?

.,<>/?:;"'{[}]\|`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+

[PeterW]

Perhaps it would be easier to just exclude everthing but letters, numbers?

ereg_replace( "[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", "", $something);

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You will probably want to keep spaces aswell
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<Edited by PeterW on 12-28-2000 at 12:00 PM>

[Hierophant]

I will try that and no I don't want to keep spaces.

Spaces and some Punctuation are not allowed in IRC nicks.

[PeterW]

Ahh.. I see.. a secret new project

ereg_replace( "[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $something); - for no spaces.