I'm trying to use regular expressions to work on some strings.
At the moment i'm using this expression $var1=trim(preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-\']/', ' ', $myString));
But with this one i'm loosing some characters i want to keep.
Those characters are '.' '\' and ':'. Can someone give me some hints to maintain those characters? Thanks for your time
UPDATE
Using Adlan string i got the right result. Now i have another problem but is not inerent with the topic. Anyway i get this string after preg_repleace Found some changes in D:\EER Data\project\myfile.csv
In this string there are correct backslashes but when i call json_encode($myString) backslashes are gone..
UPDATE2
OK , i found the problem and i know how to solve it.
I have to put double \ where there is only a .
So this string D:\EER Data\project\myfile.csv should become D:\\EER Data\\project\\myfile.csv
How can i achieve this with preg_replace? Thanks for the help
