At 4:28 PM -0500 1/15/01, bill wrote:
>Sometimes clients put a dollar sign "$" in a form that only needs a
>number (like "1.50").
>
>Is there a way to take a post variable and automatically convert it to a
>float value, stripping off any non-numeric characters?
>
>I tried doubleval() without success and I can't use intval() because it
>has decimals.
>
>kind regards,
>
$SanitizedNumber = ereg_replace('[^0-9.]', '', $NumberString);
If you really need to make this a float variable, then you can add
$Number = (float)$SanitizedNumber;
although in most cases PHP handles type conversion correctly on-the-fly.
- steve
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