Question

I am trying to parse following text in variable…

$str = 3,283,518(10,569 / 2,173)

And i am using following code to get 3,283,518

    $arr = explode('(',$str);
    $num = str_replace(',','',$arr[0]); //prints 3283518

the above $str is dynamic and sometimes it could be only 3,283,518(means w/o ()) so explode function will throw an error so what is the best way to get this value? thanks.

Answer 1

$str = "3,283,518(10,569 / 2,173)";

preg_match("/[0-9,]+/", $str, $res);
$match = str_replace(",", "", array_pop($res));

print $match;

This will return 3283518, simply by taking the first part of the string $str that only consists of numbers and commas. This would also work for just 3,283,518 or 3,283,518*10,569, etc.