Removing Alphabetical characters from string

[Silverado_NL]

hi everybody, im currently trying to automate the process of cleaning up Telephone Fields.

currently there are loads of fields in the database that contain both alphabetical characters and integer characters.

is there a command to remove these alphabetical characters in the string????

my goal is to end up with only number and no other characters.

if anybody has a clue, i'd sure like to know:)

 

Thanks you in advance.

 

 

 

Silverado

[Iceman512]

Hey Silverado,

 

Try this:

<?php

$string = "This is the string that needs to have letters stripped from it, leaving: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...";
$new_string = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z]", "", $string );

?>

 

Hope it works,

Iceman

[Orio]

my goal is to end up with only number and no other characters.

 

In that case you need to make a little change with Iceman's script:

<?php

$string = "123This is the string that needs to have letters stripped from it, leaving: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...";
$new_string = ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $string );
//$new_string now holds 12312345

?>

 

 

Orio.