Re: excluding parenthesis, space and dashes from phone number

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2007. 11. 30, péntek keltezéssel 08.44-kor afan pasalic ezt írta:
> 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"? :)

str_replace would do the job.
http://hu2.php.net/str_replace

$phone = str_replace(array(' ','(',')','-'), '', $phone);

greets
Zoltán Németh

> 
> thanks for any help.
> 
> -afan
> 

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