RE: [PHP-WIN] checking phone number

Give this line a quick try $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("[-\.\(\)\/ ]", "", $phone); --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 The benefit to the government of replacing all $1 Federal Reserve notes with $1 coins would be $522.2 million per year, according to estimates of the General Accouting Office released on April 7, 2000. > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace(" ", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\(", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\)", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\-", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\/", "", $CheckPhone); --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 The benefit to the government of replacing all $1 Federal Reserve notes with $1 coins would be $522.2 million per year, according to estimates of the General Accouting Office released on April 7, 2000. > -----Original Message----- > From: afan [mailto:afan@sprout.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:40 PM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] checking phone number > > > Hi all, > First I want to wish to everybody Happy holydays! > > I have to check does submitted phone number already exist in > database. I just wrote this: > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\.", "", $Phone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace(" ", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\(", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\)", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\-", "", $CheckPhone); > $CheckPhone = ereg_replace("\/", "", $CheckPhone); > > and it works fine! > But, probably there is something simpler, better and shorter. > Anybody have an idea? > > Afan >