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Richard perris
Richard perris

Reputation: 511

How can I remove all non alpha numeric characters and leading zeros

I want to remove everything from a string using regular expression except alpha and numeric characters and I need any leading zero removed.

The below works but does not remove leading zeros

$string = '00000000A1234567890-=qwesss     €#¢∞§¶¶•ªº–  ≠≠rtyuuiop[]\';lkjhgfdsazxcvbnm,./';

$pattern = '/([^\da-z]/i)';
$replacement = '';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

How can i alter the pattern to remove leading Zeros?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 990

Answers (3)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785008

This should work to satisfy both requirements:

$string = '00000000A1234567890-=qwesss     €#¢∞§¶¶•ªº–  ≠≠rtyuuiop[]\';lkjhgfdsazxcvbnm,./';
$pattern = '/^0+|[^\dA-Za-z]+/';
$replacement = '';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
//=> 1234567890qwesssrtyuuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm

Upvotes: 4

Marcin Nabiałek
Marcin Nabiałek

Reputation: 111829

This one will work:

<?php
$string = '00000000A1234567890-=qwesss     €#¢∞§¶¶•ªº–  ≠≠rtyuuiop[]\';lkjhgfdsazxcvb00000nm,./';

$pattern = '#^(0*)|([^\da-z])#i';
$replacement = '';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

EDIT

This pattern can also be simplified to:

$pattern = '#^0+|\W#';

Upvotes: 0

Mohammad Gholamian
Mohammad Gholamian

Reputation: 139

Try it:

$string = '00000000A1234567890-=qwesss     €#¢∞§¶¶•ªº–       ≠≠rtyuuiop[]\';lkjhgfdsazxcvbnm,./';

$pattern = '/([\W])/i';
$replacement = '';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

And if you also want delete zeros pattern is:

$pattern = '/([\W0])/i';

Upvotes: 0

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