Re: Quick question on data formatting [SOLVED]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 22:47 -0700, Jon Westcot wrote: > Thanks, Rob! I can see that it's going to be important for me to get > familiar with the POSIX regular expressions. You can use the perl versions too. I just got used to the posix versions a long time ago :). BTW, if you didn't notice I forgot the third parameter :) Cheers, Rob. > ----- 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:].]', '' ); > > -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................