On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 22:19 -0700, Jon Westcot wrote: > Hi all: > > Since I'm relatively new to PHP, I'm not familiar with all of the shortcuts and efficient ways one could write a routine that handles converting data from one format into another, so I thought I'd ask here for recommendations on how to solve one particular issue I've got. I'm viewing this as a learning experience for me. > > I've got some text fields coming in that need to be added to a table as numeric fields. In particular, I've got to process dollar amounts that appear with dollar signs and commas into their strictly numeric forms. For example: > > $123,456.78 becomes 123456.78 > $24,680 becomes 24680 > 1234B becomes 1234 $number = ereg_replace( '[^[:digit:].]', '' ); Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
