September 7, 2008 04:46am pdt

1. ddrudik 227,335
2. ozo 146,860
3. hielo 59,550
4. b0lsc0tt 48,920
5. ahoffmann 26,214
6. RQuadling 25,822
7. Fernando... 24,455
8. Zvonko 20,200
9. hernst42 14,972
10. Tintin 9,000
11. mreuring 7,480
12. CEHJ 7,400
13. DarkoLord 7,352
14. Adam314 7,278
15. TheLearn... 6,400
16. amit_g 6,250
17. cmalakar 6,000
18. SmartIntel 5,900
19. ravenpl 5,500
19. Kravimir 5,500
21. Lolly-Ink 5,400
22. PaulHews 4,900
23. caterham... 4,750
24. webtubbs 4,700
25. ghostdog74 4,515

1. ozo 360,680
2. ddrudik 356,139
3. b0lsc0tt 115,747
4. amit_g 70,653
5. Fernando... 68,855
6. hielo 63,550
7. RQuadling 59,142
8. Zvonko 49,312
9. ahoffmann 29,134
10. mvidas 24,900
11. hernst42 23,172
12. mreuring 19,540
13. Adam314 18,076
14. TheLearn... 16,550
15. Interactive... 14,920
16. DarkoLord 13,552
17. HonorGod 13,100
18. evilrix 12,920
19. CEHJ 12,864
20. RichieHin... 12,600
21. Tintin 12,332
22. ravenpl 12,000
23. angelIII 11,820
24. pepr 11,445
25. dlwyatt82 10,900

07.23.2008 at 11:29PM PDT, ID: 23591141

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Eliminate unprintable characters from mixed character/binary string

Asked by Ray_Paseur in PHP Scripting Language, Regular Expressions

Tags: PHP, REGEX, Character Translation

I have a PHP script that processes a long data string. The string is read into my script via file_get_contents() from a Word, Powerpoint, Excel, flat text file, etc. So some of the string is legible clear text and some of it is not so useful binary stuff like CR and LF, and application dependent binary values and just noise, for my purposes.

I want an efficient way to eliminate all the characters EXCEPT these listed below, by translating the non-listed characters into blanks.

Characters I want to KEEP include a-z A-Z 0-9 &!#$%@_ as well as the dot (period) and dash (minus). Everything else should be converted into a blank.

I'm not worried about multibyte or UTF-16 or anything like that - the ASCII character set, considered as if one byte at a time, will do just fine.

Sample input and output are in the code snippet. Anybody got a high-performance solution to help translate this stuff?

Many thanks, ~RayStart Free Trial

         
             Input
1...5...10...15...20...
Hello, Bill?<A>3%($$)
 
Output
1...5...10...15...20...
Hello  Bill  A 3% $$

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Eliminate unprintable characters from mixed character/binary string

Asked by Ray_Paseur in PHP Scripting Language, Regular Expressions

Tags: PHP, REGEX, Character Translation

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