Posted by Richard Lynch on 10/04/88 11:08

Ben Miller wrote:
> OK - easy one here, I know. Having troubles removing anything that is not
> a
> number from user input. According to manual, [!] is supposed to mean set
> of
> non-matching optional characters. Tried

! means that, but only in a completely different context from what you are
using...

> $var = ereg_replace("[!0-9]","",$var);

$var = ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $var);

> and it removes the numbers, but so does
>
> $var = ereg_replace("[0-9]","",$var);

What you had was stripping OUT the digits. Plus taking out "!" in the
first one.

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