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PHP RegExp Help!

I have the following regular expression which is stripping all unwanted characters before sending a variable to a url.

$url = preg_replace('~[^\\pL0-9_]+~u', '_', $url);

The problem is I would like to keep single quotation marks or encode them for the url so that I may retrieve them on the next page. The function above is currently getting rid of all single quotes.

I hacked this together and am not sure how to do this. Please Help!

Aaron
Feb 17 '08 #1
3 1160
Markus
6,050 Expert 4TB
Just add a single quote (preceeded with a backslash) to the regex, then urlencode() the url.
[php]
$_url = "something'with' sing l e ' quotes in";
echo urlencode(preg_replace('~[^\\pL0-9_\']+~u', '_', $_url));
[/php]
Feb 17 '08 #2
That did the trick. Thanks!
Feb 17 '08 #3
Markus
6,050 Expert 4TB
That did the trick. Thanks!
No probs!
remember to urldecode() when you want to get the url params!
Feb 17 '08 #4

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