Re: Formatting phone numbers?
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:11:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Formatting phone numbers? | ||
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Rob Ellis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:31:09PM -0500, BOOT wrote:Won't that replace the number, though, not insert the dash? $formatted_number = preg_replace('/^([0-9]{3})/,'\1-',$number); -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.comI'm looking for a way to take a 7 digit number and put it into xxx-xxxx format. So basically the logic is to count 3 characters into $number and insert a "-" there.substr_replace($string, '-', 3, 0);