On 2/3/06, Keith Proctor <keith_proctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to add two numbers together, unfortunately one of them is a
> string that starts with a character. I'd like to convert a string
> such as 'x5' to the number 5. Don't care about it's final type as
> that isn't the hard part. :) I can't find a function to do this. I
> looked in the math class and in the string class and there doesn't
> seem to be something to help. I, of course, could write something to
> handle it but I would prefer to use something built in. Any help
> would be appreciated.
preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", "", $x)
I would expect intval to work as well, but aparently not.
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