how to remove speacial character like: & ) ( \ / from the string using php?

Question

How to remove/escape special charater fro the script

String's are

echo $position="marketing & executive cum \ stock ";

Outputs are: marketing & executive cum \ stock

But I want result after removing:

output: marketing executive cum stock

how it is posible ?

is there any solutions please help..

Possible duplicate of [Regular Expression Sanitize (PHP)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3022185/regular-expression-sanitize-php) — v010dya, Mar 11 '17 at 10:19

Muthu17 · Answer 1 · 2017-03-11T10:20:40.867

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By using preg_replace() you can do this

function cleanString($string) {
   $string = str_replace(array( '(', ')' ), '', $string);
   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', ' ', $string); 
}

echo cleanString('marketing & executive cum \ stock ');

edited Mar 11 '17 at 10:20

answered Mar 11 '17 at 10:09

Muthu17

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thanks its works but i want to remove )( these also so please suggest.. – Anuveester Mar 11 '17 at 10:17
@Muthu17 : this would be great : https://eval.in/752861 to get single space – Niklesh Raut Mar 11 '17 at 10:25
@Niklesh Good one. It will help – Muthu17 Mar 11 '17 at 10:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 11 '17 at 10:12

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Use Following

$position="marketing & executive cum \ stock ";

echo preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-\(\) ]/', '', $position);

answered Mar 11 '17 at 10:12

Karthik

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its working but a want to remove )( also so how it is posible – Anuveester Mar 11 '17 at 10:15
preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $position); – Karthik Mar 11 '17 at 10:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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This question is a possible duplicate of this Remove all special characters from a string So please remove this question

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Mar 11 '17 at 10:09

Aravinth

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how to remove speacial character like: & ) ( \ / from the string using php?

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