hmmm...

tried your preg__match/regex...

i get:
0 - 1145 total
1 - 1145
2 - l

i would have thought that the 2nd array item should have had "total"...



-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Stanovcak [mailto:blindspot...@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:15 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Re: preg_match question...



""bruce"" <bedoug...@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:234801c98863$88f27260$0301a...@tmesa.com...
> hi...
>
> trying to figure out the best approach to using preg_match to extract the
> number from the follwing type of line...
>
> " 131646 sometext follows.."
>
> basically, i want to extract the number, without the text, but i have to 
> be
> able to match on the "text"
>
> i've been playing with different preg_match regexs.. but i'm missing
> something obvious!
>
> thoughts/comments..
>

How about
preg_match('#(\d+)(.)+#',$haystack,$match)

if I remember right
$match[0] would be all of it
$match[1] would be the numbers
$match[2] would be the text 



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