On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 22:19 -0700, Jon Westcot wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
>     Since I'm relatively new to PHP, I'm not familiar with all of the 
> shortcuts and efficient ways one could write a routine that handles 
> converting data from one format into another, so I thought I'd ask here for 
> recommendations on how to solve one particular issue I've got.  I'm viewing 
> this as a learning experience for me.
> 
>     I've got some text fields coming in that need to be added to a table as 
> numeric fields.  In particular, I've got to process dollar amounts that 
> appear with dollar signs and commas into their strictly numeric forms.  For 
> example:
> 
>     $123,456.78  becomes 123456.78
>     $24,680  becomes  24680
>     1234B  becomes  1234

$number = ereg_replace( '[^[:digit:].]', '' );

Cheers,
Rob.
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