RE: [PHP-DB] Finding numbers in a string

Seth: You should have another colon ' : ' after your alnum expression: if(ereg("[[:alnum:]]+", $textandnumbers, $numbers)) { print("$numbers<BR>"); } I'm not sure but you also may want to lose the double quotes or maybe escape them. Good luck. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Seth Yount [mailto:sethyount@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 1:52 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Finding numbers in a string Forgot my email on that last one ;) Hello all - I am trying to seperate numberic characters from a string. The book I was looking at described something like this: if(ereg("[[:alnum]]+", $textandnumbers, $numbers)) { print("$numbers<BR>"); } When I run my script I receive this error: Warning: REG_ECTYPE in ../mypage.php Anyone have a solution / explanation to my problem - still reading -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php