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how to replace all special characters except underscore and period in PHP?

<?php 
            $string="a quick borown fox jump over the lazy dog & ( jkl/)-ov";
            echo $string = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.]/', '-', strtolower($string));

?>

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