[SOLVED] preg_replace?

[tqla]

Hello. My $beforediscountedPrice variable value is $75 and I need to use the value 75 without the dollar sign. How can I remove it?

 

I have tried:

$beforediscountedPrice = preg_replace('$','',$beforediscountedPrice);

 

But it does not work, How can I do this correctly?

 

Or, is there a way to convert monetary values that have a dollar sign to regular numbers?

[Mchl]

$beforediscountedPrice = substr($beforediscountedPrice,1);

[Psycho]

Although, if there is the possibility that it may not always be the first character that you need to get rid of, you can remove all characters that are not 0-9 or a decimal using the following:

$beforediscountedPrice = preg_replace('/[^\d.]/','',$beforediscountedPrice);

[tqla]

 

Thank you Mchl. Works well. I am reading up on substr() now.

 

Thank you too mjdamato.