hmmm... tried your preg__match/regex... i get: 0 - 1145 total 1 - 1145 2 - l i would have thought that the 2nd array item should have had "total"... -----Original Message----- From: Frank Stanovcak [mailto:blindspotpro@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:15 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: preg_match question... ""bruce"" <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:234801c98863$88f27260$0301a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxx > hi... > > trying to figure out the best approach to using preg_match to extract the > number from the follwing type of line... > > " 131646 sometext follows.." > > basically, i want to extract the number, without the text, but i have to > be > able to match on the "text" > > i've been playing with different preg_match regexs.. but i'm missing > something obvious! > > thoughts/comments.. > How about preg_match('#(\d+)(.)+#',$haystack,$match) if I remember right $match[0] would be all of it $match[1] would be the numbers $match[2] would be the text -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
