How to remove non-numeric data

[pauls]

Hi,

This is bugging me BIG style!

I need to be ble to import an XML document. One of the elements contains data relating to the school year a student is in. Unfortunately, the source of this data is not clean and so a student in year 7 could have "Y7", "y7", "7", "Year 7","year7".......

How can I simply strip all the non-numeric characters from the string to be left with (ultimately an int) of "7"?

TIA

Paul

[rushiku]

int year = Integer.parseInt( "Year 7".replaceAll( "\\D", "" ) );

// year == 7

\D means any non-digit character

[pauls]

Thanks, as always rushiku!