is there a quick way to remove non numeric chars

[chris]

is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters ?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it is
0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(chris)

is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters ?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it is
0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

For example regular expressions:

$isNonNumeric = preg_match('#[^\d]#', $yourString);

Micha

[chris]

that didnt seem to work But it gives me something to go on with

thanks

"Michael Fesser" <ne*****@gmx.net> wrote in message
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.oO(chris)

is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters
?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it
is
0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

For example regular expressions:

$isNonNumeric = preg_match('#[^\d]#', $yourString);

Micha

[Hilarion]

> is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters ?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it is 0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

Do you want to only check if there are non-numeric chars (as stated in message
body), or remove them (as stated in message subject)?
If only check, then use "is_numeric" function. If replace, then you can
use some regular expressions replacement like:

$result = ereg_replace( '[^0-9]+', '', $source );
Hilarion

[Daedalus]

> $result = ereg_replace( '[^0-9]+', '', $source );

From the manual page:
"Note: preg_replace(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression
syntax, is often a faster alternative to ereg_replace()."

[Peter]

try this

<?
$str="222223433934";

if (ctype_digit($str))
{
print "The string is all digits";
}
else
{
print "the string has one or more characters that are not digits";
}
?>
chris wrote:

that didnt seem to work But it gives me something to go on with

thanks

"Michael Fesser" <ne*****@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:t6********************************@4ax.com...

.oO(chris)

is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters
?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it
is
0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

For example regular expressions:

$isNonNumeric = preg_match('#[^\d]#', $yourString);

Micha

[Hilarion]

> "Note: preg_replace(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression

syntax, is often a faster alternative to ereg_replace()."

That's true (but irrelevant if we are talking about user input validation).
And AFAIK preg functions are binary safe, where ereg functions are not
(which may be much more important).

But I do not know Perl regular expressions syntax, and personaly think that
posix syntax is easier to read.

Hilarion

[Kelv]

chris wrote:

is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters ?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it is
0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???

preg_match("%[^0-9]%",$string);

If there's anything other than 0-9 in $string, the condition returns true.

Kelv :)

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[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Hilarion)

But I do not know Perl regular expressions syntax, and personaly think that
posix syntax is easier to read.

The basic syntax is the same, except for the delimiters, which are
necessary in PCRE. Anything else are extensions, which make PCRE much
more flexible and powerful.

Micha

[d]

No-one reads the PHP manual here it seems ;) There is a built-in function
for doing this:

if (ctype_digit($string)) {
// $string contains only numbers, no other characters
}

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is there a quick and easy way to check a string for non numeric characters
?

i have thought of making a routine to check each character to confirm it
is 0 - 9 but was wondering if there was a quicker way???