Re: Stripping chars in string but leaving numerics

I managed to get it to work with ereg_replace ($tesstr = ereg_replace ("[a-z, A-Z, / etc etc...]", "", $string); However, this solution seems alot smoother. Thanks for the help! Anders > > > So if i have a string with value "abcd*()123" i want the > > output to be "123" > > In the case above I'd use a regular expression to match this. For that task > you'll need the /d instruction which matches digits. > > In your example matching the 123 would be easy: > > preg_match("/(\d+)/i", "abcd*()123", $matches) > > $matches will be an array, and $matches[0] contains the whole string, and > $matches[1] contains the first match from a pattern in paranthesis, i.e. the > $matches[1] = "123" > > What happens? /d+ matches a digit one or more times, that's what the plus > sign means. preg_match is a Perl Regular Expression match found in PHP 3.0.9 > and ahead. > > If you'd had a string like "321abcd*()123" and wanted the "321123" out > you > might have to loop over the preg_match. > > --Jesper