Re: Removing non-numbers

From: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:33:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Removing non-numbers
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Ben Miller wrote: > OK - easy one here, I know. Having troubles removing anything that is not > a > number from user input. According to manual, [!] is supposed to mean set > of > non-matching optional characters. Tried ! means that, but only in a completely different context from what you are using... > $var = ereg_replace("[!0-9]","",$var); $var = ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $var); > and it removes the numbers, but so does > > $var = ereg_replace("[0-9]","",$var); What you had was stripping OUT the digits. Plus taking out "!" in the first one. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm

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