> I think a regex would be most appropriate here:
>
> <?php
>
> $my_string = "mmm444";
>
> $my_integer = intval(eregi_replace("[a-z]", "", $my_string));
>
> print $my_integer;
>
> ?>
>
> This removes all letters and takes the int value. In perl you can remove
> everything that's NOT a digit but I didn't figure that out in PHP yet... this
> should do for now.
you're thinking of something like:
$my_integer = intval(preg_replace('!\D+!', '', $my_string));
aren't you?
PCRE regular expression finctions are PERL compatible reg. functions
using PCRE library.