Question

I have a string like below,

Hindustan Times, Oct 2009, Review by a
well known Art critic on her solo
exhibition at Jaipur, Jawahar Kala
Kendra’th, 23-29th Sep 2009. “Many of
her paintings including her self
portrait, stress in humanities
singular plight and aimlessness”

In the above string I need to remove the following characters

, " ' - .

Are there any string functions I can use to remove these characters?

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can opt to strip out all characters that aren’t alphanumeric or spaces, instead of listing all the characters you don’t want:

preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s]/", "", $str);

Of course, this would strip out all punctuation, and perhaps more characters than you want.