Question

I need a regex to remove the digits from a string but not also the spaces. I currently have

$city_location = 'UK,0113|Leeds new york';
$sip_city = '0113Leeds new york';
 $city = preg_replace('/[^a-z]/i', '', $sip_city);

It removes the digits but also the spaces so I need a regex which won’t remove the spaces.

Answer 1

Use \d if you want to remove all digits

$city = preg_replace('/\d/', '', $sip_city);

Or [^a-z\s] if you want to replace all except alphabets and whitespaces

$city = preg_replace('/[^a-z\s]/i', '', $sip_city);