RE: [PHP] Extracting Numbers from a string.

2002-09-12 Thread Adam Williams
that'll work because PHP will change its cast from a currency to a integery before adding. Adam On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, David Buerer wrote: > OK y'all, go ahead and shoot me, but this is what I'd do: > > $mystring="enters $56.55 for example"; > $mynumber=$mystring+1-1; > >

RE: [PHP] Extracting Numbers from a string.

2002-09-12 Thread David Buerer
OK y'all, go ahead and shoot me, but this is what I'd do: $mystring="enters $56.55 for example"; $mynumber=$mystring+1-1; $mynumber now equals 56.55 If you want the . to go to, use the other methods. -Original Message- From: Jason Caldwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, Se

Re: [PHP] Extracting Numbers from a string.

2002-09-11 Thread Zak Greant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On September 11, 2002 16:31, Jason Caldwell wrote: > I need to extract the numbers only from a field. > > For example: I have an AMOUNT field and so that I can filter out any user > typo's I would like to extract the numbers only. > > If the user ent

Re: [PHP] Extracting Numbers from a string.

2002-09-11 Thread Dan Ostrowski
A simple: eregi_replace("[^0-9]", "", $myvar); should do it. it says.. replace everything that is not a number ( character class "[^0-9]" which means Character class "[" NOT "^" of Decimal "0-9" end character class "]" ) with a NULL string, thereby ripping out all non-numeric components and l