I have following grouped currency formatted string:
$str = "$1,000,000";
I want to just extract 1000000 in order to do some calculation. How can I achieve that? Is there any built-in PHP function to do so? Otherwise I may need to use some RegExp.
EDIT
This is not a duplicate question because here we have a currency grouped formatted string and not a straightforward simple text.
You might replace all non-digits with the empty string:
$str = "$1,000,000";
print(
preg_replace('/\D+/', '', $str)
);
Of course, "non-digits" includes decimal points too. If you want to keep decimal points, then use a negated character set instead:
$str = "$1,000,000.00";
print(
preg_replace('/[^\d.]+/', '', $str)
);
\D+, is + necessary? I'm getting the same result even after removing it.
$$$$5, rather than replacing a single $ 4 times, it'll just replace $$$$ once.$$$1,000,000 then result still would be 1000000 without using + in \D
+ is one or more, without the quantifier you replace each character individually. Quantified is more efficient (although minimal in your example) see regex101.com/r/WbZnMk/2 vs regex101.com/r/WbZnMk/1Here is a str_replace way, assuming that your digits only contain $ and , (or . if you include decimals)
$toBeRemoved = array('$', ',');
$str = '$1,000,000';
$cleaned = floatval(str_replace($toBeRemoved, "", $str));
echo $cleaned;
