Cant Figure out how to Remove characters from Sting in PHP

Question

I made Cron job using amazon affiliate api and getting price for perrticular product but its not what i want. Its probably super easy but i am new to coding and cant fegure it out

responce from amazon api is INR 1,895.00 and i need 1895 as final result

    $price = "INR 1,895.00";

    $price = substr($price,4,10);

    //removes "INR "

    echo $price = (int)$price;

   // converts to integer

The value of $price i get 1 due to "," and i m not able to solve it

`str_replace()` try this, yes converting into int will return 1 — devpro, Jan 17 '19 at 14:55
[`sscanf`](http://php.net/sscanf) perhaps, or a regex replacing `/[^\d.]+/`. — mario, Jan 17 '19 at 14:57
This is a currency string - so you're probably better off looking at [NumberFormatter::parseCurrency](http://php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.parsecurrency.php) — CD001, Jan 17 '19 at 15:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 15:00

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PHP has a built in filter to support this sort of thing

$price = "INR 1,895.00";
$price=( (float) filter_var( $price, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT, FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION ) ); //outputs 1895

This solution also supports values like 'INR 19.95', resulting in '19.95'

answered Jan 17 '19 at 15:00

Dimi

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This *may* go wonky with other national currency formats where the point and comma are reversed, e.g. `EUR 1.895,00` in NL – CD001 Jan 17 '19 at 15:14
@CD001 True, however, in this case data comes out of amazon api, which always has the same notation. – Dimi Jan 17 '19 at 15:34

Cant Figure out how to Remove characters from Sting in PHP

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