I am trying to remove some specific special characters from my strings and also the letters
These are the special characters /,-‗‖*<>:;^’+
. This is what I tried:
$telephone = preg_replace('[^/,-‗‖*<>:;^’+]', '', $telephone);
Example: adadsdad131231231222/,-‗‖*<>:;^’+22222
, should become: 13123123122222222
But I am not so good with regex. I tried to find smth similar, with specific characters , but aren't any posts :( Can you help me with this ?
UPDATE
Another example: adadsdad131231231222/,-‗‖*<&>:;^’+22222
should become 131231231222&22222
You had these mistakes in your regex:
^
in the beginning negates the character class. So, I escaped it with \
-
in the middle will let you match a range of characters. Hence, I moved it to the end of the character classa-z
Try this regex:
(?i)[\^\/,‗‖*<>:;^’+a-z-]+
Replace matches with a blank string
Explanation:
(?i)
- case-insensitive modifier(?i)[\^\/,‗‖*<>:;^’+a-z-]+
- matches either a letter or any of these characters ^
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