Matching characters [a-zA-Z] in PHP regular expression

Question

I have a few lines that need a-strippin ':

ÃœT: 9.996636,76.294363

Tons of long lines of location codes. Literal regex in PHP won't match them, IE

$pattern = /ÃœT:/;
echo preg_replace($pattern, "", $row['location']);

No match / stripe. (To see if it works, /T:/

strip the last bit of that line). What's going on with the coding error here?

Alternatively, I would accept a concise way to output only numbers.

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Alex mcp Apr 21 '10 at 3:40

2 answers

You need to use / u modifier for regex to work with unicode

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Edson medina 06 jul. 12 at 8:28

Josh K · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-21T03:47:07+0000

If the text is all in this format (: followed by a space), you can simply say:

$str = explode(": ", $pattern);
echo($str[1]);

It's not the most elegant solution and I have no idea if it's incredibly slow, but it works for most things. Unless you are inclined to use regex.