>Thank you Cetin. Although a little more complicated solution than Hilmar's, it will be worth to check it out.
>Thank you for your time.
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>Ulises
I tried it, and think that you should definitely use Çetin's solution; it is much more complete than the one I gave you. strtran() only eliminates one specified character at a time; what you really need is something like "keep only letters", and that is exactly what Çetin's solution does.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)