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Posted by John Nichel on 08/02/05 20:06
David Christensen wrote:
> I just plain suck at regex, so I was hoping to get some hints from you
> regex experts out there. I'm sure it's been done a thousand times, but
> I can't seem to find what I'm looking for with a simple google search:
>
> $phone could be "1234567890" OR
> $phone could be "123-456-7890" OR
> $phone could be "(123) 456 7890 OR
> $phone could have other unexpected characters in it, even control
> characters.
>
> So what I'm desiring to do is run some type of regex on $phone and only
> return the integers and assign the cleaned string back to $phone. I
> thought I knew how to do this, but it's not working.
>
> Thanks for your guidance.
>
If all you want is the digits....
$phone = preg_replace ( "/\D/", "", $phone );
Same as....
/[^0-9]/
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John C. Nichel
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