Regular expressions can also help clean up input text for more aesthetic purposes. Let's assume we want to convert a blog title into URL-friendly characters...
While regular expressions are often used for input validation, I also find them very useful for cleaning malicious code in user input. For this I used the function preg_replace. The idea is that I only allow certain characters through... |
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