How might I pull this price out of description?

[Jeffro]

okay.. regex is still the hardest thing for me to get, so hoping someone can help with this one. 

 

Can I search my $description, grab the dollar sign and all characters immediately following ...until the next space...  and store that as $price  ? 

 

I'm not using commas or decimal points in $price, so only searching for whole numbers.. though these might be any number of characters ($5, $50, $50000).

 

Many thanks. 

 

[requinix]

Sure.

\$(\d+)

[Jeffro]

Sure.

\$(\d+)

 

Not working for me.  Getting:  No ending delimiter '$' found in /home/...

 

I also tried

/\\$(/\d+)

and

/\$(/\d+)

[Jeffro]

I'm all good.  I found some code on a different site that worked great. 

 

/(\$[0-9,]+(\.[0-9]{2})?)/

 

Thanks!

[requinix]

Too much trouble to learn it, eh?

'/\$(\d+)/'

Before I gave you the expression, not the PHP string for preg_match() (which apparently you're using, as opposed to MySQL or ereg() or something else).

[Jeffro]

Too much trouble to learn it, eh?

'/\$(\d+)/'

Before I gave you the expression, not the PHP string for preg_match() (which apparently you're using, as opposed to MySQL or ereg() or something else).

 

So how would I have use what you gave me?  Just a bit confused and trying to understand. 

Thanks.

[requinix]

preg_match('/\$(\d+)/', $string, $matches)

From there it depends.