Remove Phone number from string in PHP

Question

i want to remove phone number with follow match

one two three four five six seven eight nine zero

i have tried following

Answer 1

At the risk of teaching a man to fish...

I swear by regexbuddy when crafting regex patterns. They have a library of patterns for phone numbers as well. It's really easy to build a pattern and see its result. It's a swiss army knife for programming. I've used it for 7 years and it's always open on my computer.

Also, it can generate php code (as well as javascript, etc.) for a number of different scenarios.

Answer 2

I'm not totally sure what you're trying to do, but to start, you define $regexp, but then reference $number_regexp

Answer 3

Check your regexp variable name

$regexp = "/[one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|zero]{4,}/";
$message = preg_replace($regexp, 'XXX', $message);

For number 0 to 9

preg_replace("/[^0-9]/","",$message);

Use \d if you want to remove all digits

$message  = preg_replace('/\d/', '', $message);

Or [^a-z\s] if you want to replace all except alphabets and whitespaces

$message = preg_replace('/[^a-z\s]/i', '', $message);