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Date: 2009may28
Language: php

Q.  What's the best way to remove/delete punctuation from a string in PHP?

A.  Like this:

function removePunct($s) {
	return pregReplaceAll('/[[:punct:]]+/', '', $s);
}

function exampleUse() {
	$b = "What's Up?";
	$b = removePunct($b);
	print "b=$b";
}

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