Help (regexps?)

[AlexC]

Hi,

ok, basically i have a number in the format

07736 284 827

and i want to turn it into

+447736284827

any ideas how? i'm stuck on removing the 0 if there is one as sometimes the number will be entered as 7736... etc

Alex

[someonewhois]

I'm a bit confused..


00 to 44? What for?


What exactly are you trying to do? Get rid of zero's? Zero's and spaces? Zero's at the begining and spaces?


Regards,
Someonewhois

P.S. Long time no see.

[AlexC]

ok, i guess i didn't explain properly

in the UK, the format of a mobile (cell) number is usually used/wrote as

07747 372 482 for example

a 0, always followed by 4 digits (network code) and then 6 digits (number)

i want to convert this to a international format number, i.e

+447747372482

exaxtly the same, but no preceding 0 and a +44 on the end

the problem is removing the 0 only if it is there

i.e

<?php

if (0 is there) {
remove 0
}
$mnumber = "+44" . $mnumber;
?>

if that makes sense

[someonewhois]

Hmmmm, my regex isn't that good, but this should do it:

$txt = "07747 372 482"; // I use quotes on numbers as if it's a string, not an int most of the time..

$txt = ereg_replcae("^0", "", $txt);

$txt = "+44".$txt; 

Will that work?

"^0" meaning if the 0 is at the begining?

Regards,
Someonewhois

P.S. What did you have that didn't work?


[Edit: Oh, I added 1 "4" instead of 2 accidentally ]

[Edit2: Argh, I want ereg_replcae, not preg_replace.. ]

[Coomer]

You could do this:

<?php
$txt = str_replace(" ", "", $txt);
if(substr($txt, 0, 1) == "0"){
   $txt = substr($txt, 1);
}
$txt = "+44" . $txt;
?>

[Coomer]

Looks like someonewhois beat me to it. You forgot to remove the spaces in the $txt variable though.

[someonewhois]

Yeah, and if you REALLY want that if() to check if it has it or not:

$txt = "07747 372 482"; 

if (ereg("^0", $txt))
{
$txt = ereg_replcae("^0", "", $txt); 
}
$txt = str_replace(" ", "", $txt);
$txt = "+44".$txt; 

BTW, that won't give spaces now

[someonewhois]

Originally posted by Coomer
Looks like someonewhois beat me to it.

I just had to help him

AlexC was the one who got me started both at PHP, and when I was getting so many errors, he's the one who sent me to SPF, and I'm glad he did!

[AlexC]

hehe... been a while since i've done much coding (and needed help..) - ok, someonewhois - your solution produces this error:

07732495603
Warning: No ending delimiter '^' found in /home/teravox/public_html/fonewow/channels/mobileprocess.php on line 44
+44

Any ideas? - i'm going to try coomers idea now

Thanks :-D

[AlexC]

coomer, you are a genius - with a little work from both of your solutions i got the script working, the number outputs perfectly now

Thankyou both of you! :-D

[someonewhois]

I don't use regex much

PHP Manual:


ereg ("^abc", $string);
/* Returns true if "abc";
is found at the beginning of $string. */

Beats me


Glad you figured it out