Strip non-numeric characters from a string with PHP Perl-style regular expression

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on February 23, 2010 - 6:11am

<?php $numbers_only_string = preg_replace('/\D/', '', $string); ?>

Yeah, that there's a regexp character for "not a digit". Craziness.

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php strip non numeric characters take numbers out of text remove extra input from number value

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Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on January 14, 2011 - 8:38am.

great tip

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