Regular Expression to remove emojis from text input

RE: Regular Expression to remove emojis from text input

Stefan Helzle — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 08:16:52 GMT

Yeah ... if this is only about English, that should work. If you need to support multiple languages, you need to test that.

RE: Regular Expression to remove emojis from text input

Ajay Pandey — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:25:27 GMT

Thanks for your reply !

I got an easy solution using clean() function, that eliminates any chars which are not printable.

RE: Regular Expression to remove emojis from text input

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:20:28 GMT

For the regex replacing other characters as well, check this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53383475/replace-all-emojis-from-a-given-unicode-string

My first question: Why do you want to remove emojis? Database issues could be solved by switching to a UTF8MB4 collation.

Solution: code() returns the integer number of characters. Then you can remove/replace the required ranges and turn it back into a string using char().