Preg replace help

[SJshah]

^ that shouldn't be a problem since they are only 1-liner's

thanks for all the help m8


got it down to this:

function clean($txt)
{
    // remove everything that is not a word, _, -, whitespace or a number
    $result = preg_replace('/([^\w\d\s\-]+|\b[\w]{1,3}\b)/', '', $txt);
    // replace numbers with a space
    $result = preg_replace('/\d+/', ' ', $result);
    // remove words <= 3 chars
    $result = preg_replace('/\b[\w]{1,3}\b/', '', $result);
    // trim spaces
    $result = preg_replace('/[ ]{2,}/', ' ', $result);
    $result = trim($result);
    
    return $result;
}