Steve wrote:
For your filter to return only/no digits, I would recommend doing a bit of reading on preg_replace ( http://us2.php.net/preg_replace ) while noting the following flags:

\d
Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class [0-9].

\D
Matches any non-digit character; this is equivalent to the class [^0-9].

ex:
preg_replace('/\d/', '', $str);
preg_replace('/\D/', '', $str);



"Todd Cary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Boget wrote:
I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on using filters this way?
It may not be the most efficient way of accomplishing this, but you
could do something like:

$string = 'SMith'
$fixedString = ucwords( strtolower( $string ));

thnx,
Chris
Thank you! I did not know about the ucwords() functions, and it does not need the string set to lower case.

Now to create a filter that returns only numbers (e.g. "a1234z" -> "1234") and the same for non-numbers.

Many thanks...

Todd

Thank you for the \d and \D suggestions! Another addition to my tool chest.

Todd

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