regular expression ereg_replace

[Anon]

Hi all,

I'm trying to replace the "(", ")", "-", and spaces in a phone number (HTML). This is what I'm using - I've tried other variations as well.

ereg_replace("[ -()]{1,}" , " " , $workph);

now this doesn't change $workph one bit regardless of what I put in the field.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

Troy

[kparker]

Sure. $workph is a parameter-by-value to the ereg_replace function. It literally can't affect its input. Instead, it returns a completely separate copy of the modified string as its return value, so just say:

  $workph = ereg_replace("[ -()]{1,}" , " " , $workph);

if you do want to alter the original variable. But since it works this way, you are also free to put the altered result into some other variable, e.g.:

  $cleaned_workph = ereg_replace("[ -()]{1,}" , " " , $workph);