Re: Quick question on data formatting [SOLVED]

Thanks, Rob! I can see that it's going to be important for me to get familiar with the POSIX regular expressions. Jon ----- Original Message ----- > 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. > -- > ........................................................... > SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com > > Leveraging the buying power of the masses! > ........................................................... >