Stripping Dollar Sign

[TheAndrew]

I have a field where people will enter an invoice total. If the field has $8.00, i want to strip off the leading $.

I tried the following:

$partcost=strip_tags($partcost);

as well as

$partcost=ereg_replace('$','',$partcost);

I cant figure out anything else, or why neither of these works (probably because $ is a variable header.)

--TheAndrew

[drew010]

$partcost=str_replace('\$','',$partcost);

[TheAndrew]

I couldnt get that to work.

Any other ideas?

[drew010]

i tried
$POST['partcost'] = str_replace("$", '', $POST['partcost']);
on my server and it worked fine.

[Weedpacket]

[man]strip_tags[/man] strips HTML tags - it has nothing to do with dollar signs.
[man]ereg_replace[/man] uses $ in its regular expressions to represent the end of a string. But you're not using regular expressions here so there's no point using ereg_replace (or preg_replace).

Either way, the problem has nothing to do with the fact that $ is used to decorate variables (even if it did, it wouldn't matter, because you were using single quotes, and PHP doesn't look inside single-quoted strings for variables).

Go with drew010's suggestion and use [man]str_replace[/man], which is used to replace one specified string with another.