stripping off characters

[rowantrimmer]

Hello,

I have a php variable that contains £123,456

How can I strip it down so it only has 123456 in the variable. The £ will always be at the beginning but the comma may well move.

Regards

Rowan Trimmer

[mahers]

$value = "£123,456";
echo ereg_replace("[^0-9]","",$value);

[ZibingsCoder]

Might also consider just using str_replace(). Kind of the cheap way...

$string = "£123,298";

$string = str_replace(",", "", $string);
$string = str_replace("£", "", $string);