Re: Quick question on data formatting
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:30:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Quick question on data formatting | ||
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On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 22:19 -0700, Jon Westcot wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Since I'm relatively new to PHP, I'm not familiar with all of the shortcuts and
> efficient ways one could write a routine that handles converting data from one format into another,
> so I thought I'd ask here for recommendations on how to solve one particular issue I've
> got. I'm viewing this as a learning experience for me.
>
> I've got some text fields coming in that need to be added to a table as numeric
> fields. In particular, I've got to process dollar amounts that appear with dollar signs and
> commas into their strictly numeric forms. For example:
>
> $123,456.78 becomes 123456.78
> $24,680 becomes 24680
> 1234B becomes 1234
$number = ereg_replace( '[^[:digit:].]', '' );
Cheers,
Rob.
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