Remove euro sign from string

Question

I have a php string which contains a currency. In this case it is a € but to make it future proof I would also like to replace other currency's. How can I filter this currency symbol out?

I tried preg replace but don't know the key to filter currency notations out, also I saw a couple of posts in which they did it entirely different, but couldn't manage to get them to work.

Tried your suggestions guys, still doesn't work. If I add a "," to the suggestions below in this post it does remove the , from the price so it does seem to do something. But the € sign remains.

The price is coming from a woocommerce array, and right before I want to remove the € sign I use a "strip_tags" command. Maybe that has to do something with it. If is use a if else statement to see if it is a string it echo's true, so it isn't a float or anything.

Try the solution given in the accepted answer of the duplicate question linked above or the function given in [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19764699/1438393). — Amal Murali, Feb 25 '14 at 16:02

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 16:03

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If you want to do it quick and easy, just do a string replacement:

$symbols = array('$', '€', '£');
$unformatted = str_replace($symbols, '', $price_string);

answered Feb 25 '14 at 16:03

giorgio

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 16:03

Why not write a simple str_replace() ?

<?php
function strip_currency($str)
{
    return str_replace(array('$','€','£','pуб'),'',$str); // You can add-up currency symbols here
}
$yourstr='I have 10$ with me !';
echo $yourstr = strip_currency($yourstr); //"prints" I have 10 with me !

Demo

Remove euro sign from string

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