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A couple simple perl compatible regular expressions using php's preg_replace function.

Part 1

Okay, I'm trying to wipe out all dollar values from a string. It's driving me insane. I have no idea what I'm doing...

I tried.. $html = preg_replace("\$[0-9]+.[0][0]",'',$html);

Please help!

<td>PKG</td><td>Sport Lite Package (1 @ $254.00)</td><td align="right">$254.00</td>

Part 2.

$4,543.00 AVS85X17DS2
$4,917.00 AVS85X17DS2
$4,543.00 AVS85X17DS2
$21,896.00 EG85X28WT4
$6,390.00 KLS7X20WT3
$4,723.00 RT7X16WT2

I'm looking to extract sizes from the top... I don't exactly know what to do... but here are the real values I'm trying to extract

85X17
85X17
85X17
85X28
7X20
7X16

It seems like the sizes are surrounded by alpha.

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MasonWolf

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MeridianManagement

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Great, but I can't get the second part to work... I'll keep trying.

MasonWolf

"$text" in the second statement is supposed to be the string containing your data including the data about sizes.

Thanks for the clarification ozo, I'd forgotten about the thousands separators.

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mjcoyne

The output of the above script, when run against your sample data as indicated, is:

85X17
85X17
85X17
85X28
7X20
7X16

MeridianManagement

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Thanks everyone! What was actually wrong was the quotation. Php doesn't like double quotes for preg functions. Great job!