RE: [PHP] Strip Numbers

You could use two substr()s or an ereg_replace() $result = substr($str, 0, 2) . substr($str, 5); or $result = ereg_replace("([0-9][0-9])990([0-9][0-9])", "\\1\\2", $str); Both are not tested, but should work Martin -----Original Message----- From: Joe Harman [mailto:joe@harmanmedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 4:52 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Strip Numbers Hey could someone help me out here.... I need to strip numbers from a passed variable ex. 3899007 all the numbers will have 990 (so that is the 4th, 5th & sixth numbers... from the right...) I want to keep everything to the left of the two 9s... is there an easy way to do that???? Joe Harman http://www.HarmanMedia.com This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo, 1876 __________ Information from NOD32 1.468 (20030725) __________ This message was checked by NOD32 for Exchange e-mail monitor. http://www.nod32.com