I suck at regex.. but found this a while ago. Supposedly it'll strip all
non-numeric characters, so I've used it for phone #'s and SSNs:
preg_replace ('/[^\d]+/s', '', $var)
-TG
----- Original Message -----
From: afan pasalic <afan@xxxxxxxx>
To: php-general <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:44:38 -0500
Subject: excluding parenthesis, space and dashes from phone number
> hi,
> I store phone number in mysql as integer, e.g. (123) 456-7890 is stored
> as 1234567890.
> though, in search form they usually type in a phone number with
> parenthesis/space/dashes. I have to extract numbers before I search
> through mysql.
>
> currently, I use eregi_replace() function, several times, to do the job:
> eregi_replace(' ', '', $phone);
> eregi_replace('(', '', $phone);
> eregi_replace(')', '', $phone);
> eregi_replace('-', '', $phone);
> and it works fine.
>
> but, is there any better way? more "fancy"? :)
>
> thanks for any help.
>
> -afan
>
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