BBGaming Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I want to strip all letters from a string. Either that, or find out how many letters there are. How could I do this? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/62608-number-of-letters/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearstatcache Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 not sure if ds s wat u want... 8s how i understand ur prob... <?php $str = 'a2b5cdef23g9=#'; $str_letters_only = preg_replace('/[^a-z]/','',$str); $num_letters = strlen($str_letters_only); print "$str_letters_only\n$num_letters\n"; ?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/62608-number-of-letters/#findComment-311658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBGaming Posted July 31, 2007 Author Share Posted July 31, 2007 preg_replace? Could you explain what that is? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/62608-number-of-letters/#findComment-311662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearstatcache Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 visit the php manual for more info... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/62608-number-of-letters/#findComment-311664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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