How to remove all characters except Alphabets and space in php-CodePudding

I want to remove everything except Alphabets and spaces in php string.

$status = "1 (Delivered to customer)";

$status = preg_replace('/\PL/u', '', $status);

//output
echo $status;

The output is: Deliveredtocustomer

I want output: Delivered to customer

How to fix this?

Regards

CodePudding user response：

I use this and it worked.

$status = preg_replace("/[^ \w] /", "", $status);
$status = preg_replace('/[0-9] /', '', $status);
$status = trim($status);

Output = Delivered to customer

CodePudding user response：

You can do it in just one go. Anything that is not an alphabet or space(performing a case insensitive search), just replace them with an empty string.

<?php

$status = "1 (Delivered to customer)";

echo preg_replace("/[^a-z\s] /i","",$status);

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