Question

Would like to extract an amount in the following string:

£5000 per Night - 1 bedroom - Serviced Apartment

Any idea on how to do it using preg match all ?

I’m using this pattern:

preg_match_all("|£(\d)|U",$string,$matches);

but it only fetches 5 instead of 5000

what if it’s £15,000 could be extract it with the comma ?

thx for helping,

Stephane

Answer 1

Use \d+ instead of \d. Otherwise, it’ll only match a single digit. + means ‘one or more’.

preg_match_all("|£(\d+)|U",$string,$matches);

(For more details on how repetition works in regular expressions, see this page.)

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An expression that allows commas as well, and makes sure that they aren’t in weird spots (e.g. ,500):

preg_match_all("|£(\d+(?:,\d+)*)|U",$string,$matches);