I want to get the numbers only and omit the commas

[Jarod]

Well I give up on this... Even though I learned a lot about regex, but forget it... Anyways, I've been trying to figure out how I would handle my inputs so that it only looks at the numbers and nothings else.

 

Check out 900,000,000,000 for example (900 billions btw). I enter it exactly as, but when it comes down for processing it I only want the numbers to go through, which would be 900000000000. I've heard of regex before, but never actually understood its purpose and how its suppose to be used. So anyways I used the expressions /[0-9]{1,3}[^,]*/, but the problem of that is I cant get it to only look at the numbers (omitting the commas and only using the numbers). Its array would output

 

Array [0] (

$match[0] = 900;

$match[1] = 000;

$match[2] = 000;

$match[3] = 000;

)

 

Any way I can get it to look at the string like this??? (900000000000)

[salathe]

You could use more basic string functions instead, for example:

str_replace(',', '', '900,000,000,000')

 

If you want to use a regular expression, the following simply removes all commas:

preg_replace('/,/', '', '900,000,000,000')

[JAY6390]

Or better still use

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

Which will remove anything but numbers and decimal points. It's ideal for strings for currency like $54.09 and so on

[salathe]

Or better still use

$string = preg_replace('/\D/', '', $string);

Which will remove anything but numbers. It's ideal for strings for numbers like 900,000,000,000 and so on

 

[ot]Sorry.  [/ot]

[JAY6390]

Yup, but can only handle integers

[salathe]

The OP never gave any hint that non-integer numbers need to be catered for. Then again, they never gave any hint that anything other than commas need to be dealt with.

[JAY6390]

lol very true