Stripping text

[Anon]

I have a order form the send a order to the client on a street address What I want to do is strip the text from the address and leave the address number

ie.
1234 Neverland Rd. Should read 1234

Can anybody help

TIA
Richie TM

[non_zero]

Logically, the numbers will always be the first part of an address, followed by a space. So, I wrote this code:

$address = "1234 Neverland Rd.";
$number = substr($address, 0, strpos($address, " "));
echo $number;

[cheald]

Alternately,

$number = eregi_replace("[^{0-9]","",$address);}
echo $number;

[non_zero]

This won't work for my address, "1812 W. 26th St". It'll return "181226", and that's not right.

Oops. I probably shouldn't have posted my address. Oh well.