I was wondering if there's a combo of functions or a direct function that can count how many numbers appears in a string, without use a long-way as str_split
and check every character in a loop.
From a string like:
fdsji2092mds1039m
It returns that there's 8
numbers inside.
You can use filter_var()
with the FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT
constant, then check the length of the new string. The new string will contain only numbers from that string, and all other characters are filtered away.
$string = "j3987snmj3j";
$numbers = filter_var($string , FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
$length = strlen($numbers); // 5
echo "There are ".$length." numbers in that string";
Note that each number will be counted individually, so 137
would return 3
, as would 1m3j7
.
Other solution:
function countNumbers(string $string) {
return preg_match_all('/\d/', $string, $m);
}
You can use regular expression
Try like this:
$myString = 'Som3 Charak1ers ar3 N0mberZ h3re ;)';
$countNumbers = strlen((string)filter_var($myString, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT));
echo 'Your input haz ' . $countNumbers . ' digits in it, man';
You can also make a function out of this to return only the number, if you need it.
Following code does what you intend to do:
<?php
$string = 'dsfds98fsdfsdf8sdf908f9dsf809fsd809f8s15d0d';
$splits=str_split($string);
$count=0;
foreach ($splits as $split){
if(is_numeric($split)){
$count++;
}
}
print_r($count);
Output: 17