PHP Regular Expression Exercises: Remove nonnumeric characters except comma and dot

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Write a PHP script to remove nonnumeric characters except comma and dot.

Sample string : '$123,34.00A'

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Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Define a string containing alphanumeric characters, including special characters like comma and period.
$str1 = "$12,334.00A";

// Use preg_replace function to remove all characters except digits (0-9), comma (,), and period (.).
// The regular expression pattern "/[^0-9,.]/" matches any character that is not a digit, comma, or period.
// The replacement parameter is an empty string, effectively removing all non-digit, comma, and period characters.
echo preg_replace("/[^0-9,.]/", "", $str1)."\n";
?>

Output:

12,334.00

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

The given PHP code removes all characters except digits (0-9), comma (,), and period (.) from the string '$str1'.

It uses the 'preg_replace' function with a regular expression pattern '"/[^0-9,.]/"' to match any character that is not a digit, comma, or period, and replaces those characters with an empty string.

Finally, it echoes the modified string.

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