preg_replace > numbers

[netmastan]

Hi, I have a field in a table with some text,colon and numbers.I want to chop out everything except numbers.

$number = str_replace("what code do u type here to remove character (everything except number)","", $number);

[suntra]

Using str_replace() will not do the trick. You should use ereg_replace() or preg_replace(). Read on PHP.net about these two functions, maybe will you find the solution.

Maybe you could use this (it works for me) :

preg_replace("([^0-9.])", "", $str);

$str is the string to convert...

Does it help ?

[netmastan]

Excellent.. it works 100% .

What does "([^0-9.])" mean I assume numbers 0 to 9.If it so, then it sould remove numbers ??? as

preg_replace("(remove", "with", $str); 

Anyway, thank u for ur help.

[suntra]

I think that ^ means NOT, 0-9 means from characters 0 to 9, so 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and the point (.) is... a point !

So, PHP "thinks", "I must replace any character that is not from 0 to 9 and not a . by nothing".

Concerning the [ ], I just don't know !