[SOLVED] string represenation of number as number

[mikesta707]

Is there a function that will take the string representation of a number, and return the number it represents?

 

IE if the string was fifteen, it would return 15, etc?

[KevinM1]

Is there a function that will take the string representation of a number, and return the number it represents?

 

IE if the string was fifteen, it would return 15, etc?

 

Have you tried casting it to an int?

[mikesta707]

Won't work. casting strings to ints only works when you have an int surrounded by quotes, like "2" or "5" or "15", however if you use the word, IE "two", "five", or "fifteen" they get cast to zero (as do all other non integer strings)

[corbin]

As far as I know there is not a built in function that does that.

[Mark Baker]

There are a number of examples of user-written functions doing this (in various languages) on http://www.php.net

[KevinM1]

Ah, I didn't think you meant the word 'fifteen'.

 

Nope, no built-in function.  You'll most likely have to regex the string for a known number value, then return the integer equivalent.

 

Fake EDIT: or use one of the functions found in Mark's link.

[5kyy8lu3]

no built in function to do what you need but you can write a function to do it. i'm sure you can find a function someone else wrote too if you'd rather do it that way.

[mikesta707]

thanks mark, the specific function you linked to is the opposite of what I want though hehe, (its ints to words, not words to ints). I was going to write the function but just wanted to know if there was a built in one already.

 

thanks everyone