Trouble with preg_replace

[George3]

I'm currently haveing some trouble with a php function and having it remove any charactors that are not numbers such as [0-9].

<?php
$string = "(9*9*9) abogd    4/8/5-4-8+0+0";
$echo = preg_replace("^[0-9]^", "", $string);
echo $echo;
?>

I would like to know how to setup preg_replace to remove everything except numaric charactors or if there is a function specifcly for this please let me know.

[rharter]

this should do it

echo preg_replace('/[^{0-9]/',"","(999)} abogd 4/8/5-4-8+0+0");

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[George3]

thanks worked perfectly. Now for the other part is when I pull the number from my database it will be "9995555555" a 10 digit number. How would i take that and break up into something such as this "[phone]"

[rharter]

here ya go
echo "(".substr("9995555555",0,3).") ".substr("9995555555",3,3)."-".substr("9995555555",6);

you owe me a cup of coffee now 🙂