note 25117 deleted from function.intval by kennyt
| From: | kennyt@php.net | Date: | Wed, 04 Feb 2004 02:21:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 25117 deleted from function.intval by kennyt | ||
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Note Submitter: mholdgate@wakefield.co.uk
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An alternative to intval, which will pick up the first integer within a string, wherever it is.
function extract_int ($str) {
ereg ('[^0-9]*([0-9]+)[^0-9]*', $str, $regs);
return (intval ($regs[1]));
}