Newbie lost in preg replace

php preg_replace regular expression

[numediaweb]

hello folks out there
sinc yesterday, i tray to get a regular expression to work but in vain .
I want a methode that checks a string and strips away some characters and echo the result;

from this;
$in = '10. Prom Night (2008) - $1.0M';

to this;
$out = 'Prom+Night+(2008)';

the number in the begining may varry from 1 to 100 but it's always limited by a dot (.)
the data at the end (- $1.0M) may varry like; (- $100.990M) but it always begin with (-)
the result as you can see, should not contain spaces, but, plus signs replacing spaces.

thank you in advance for providing a regular expression handling this .

[numediaweb]

comon php gurus, where are you :-) littel help for old man!

[dreamcatcher]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld. :)

Please be patient. Its the weekend and it can be quiet around here. A solution will follow soon I`m sure.

dc

[dublinmike]

Hi there,

Try this:

function stripChars($str)
{
 $str = preg_replace('/^[0-9]+\. /','',$str);
 $str = preg_replace('/ -+.+/','',$str);
 return $str;
}
$out = stripChars('10. Prom Night (2008) - $1.0M');
// you can either urlencode the result but that will replace the () characters
// as well, if you just want to replace the spaces with the + character,
// use str_replace(' ','+',$out);
print $out;

[numediaweb]

Thank you verry much.. you made my life easier !