Re: Capitalizing the first letter

Steve wrote:

For your filter to return only/no digits, I would recommend doing a bit of reading on preg_replace ( http://us2.php.net/preg_replace ) while noting the following flags: \d Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class [0-9]. \D Matches any non-digit character; this is equivalent to the class [^0-9]. ex: preg_replace('/\d/', '', $str); preg_replace('/\D/', '', $str); "Todd Cary" <todd@aristesoftware.com> wrote in message news:45F6B3F1.6090308@aristesoftware.com...

Chris Boget wrote:

I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on using filters this way?

It may not be the most efficient way of accomplishing this, but you could do something like: $string = 'SMith' $fixedString = ucwords( strtolower( $string )); thnx, Chris

Thank you! I did not know about the ucwords() functions, and it does not need the string set to lower case. Now to create a filter that returns only numbers (e.g. "a1234z" -> "1234") and the same for non-numbers. Many thanks... Todd

Thank you for the \d and \D suggestions! Another addition to my tool chest. Todd