preg_replace help!

[skip]

Hello PHP Peeps!

go on tell me here I have gone wrong please.

$string = '$10 off 5, 10 and 15mb hosting offer';

$money_off = preg_replace("/[^0-9\s\boff\b/]", '',$string);

basicly I just want money off to equal Number and off so in the above example I would like it to return

10 off

thanks in advance

[nrg_alpha]

If you just want to get money off, you don't need to use preg_replace. You can capture using preg_match instead:

$string = '$10 off 5, 10 and 15mb hosting offer';
preg_match('#\$(\d+ off)#', $string, $match);
echo $match[1]; // output: 10 off

Granted, if you might have decimals as well, say $15.95 off, you can use this:

$string = '$15.95 off 5, 10 and 15mb hosting offer';
preg_match('#\$(\d+(?:\.\d+)? off)#', $string, $match);
echo $match[1]; // output: 15.95 off

In that last example, the decimal and numbers afterwards are optional. So it would match $15 off by example as well as a dollar figure with a decimal and cents.