Numbers only in a string

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Re: Numbers only in a string by sk (Curate) on Sep 08, 2005 at 15:51 UTC
So close :) `#!/usr/bin/perl -w while(<DATA>) { s/[^\d]+//g; print $_,$/; } __DATA__ 800-800-1212 (800)800-1212 (800) 800-1212 800 800 1212` [download] `__END__ 8008001212 8008001212 8008001212 8008001212` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Numbers only in a string by superfrink (Curate) on Sep 09, 2005 at 05:02 UTC
I added one line to get up to 10 digits starting from the right side. This will remove the leading "1" and I think any country code. (I'm assuming the phone number is in the format for Canada/USA.) `while(<DATA>) { s/[^\d]+//g; # remove non-digit characters # only digit characters remain m/(.{0,10})$/; # find as many as 10 characters, # starting at the right print $1,$/; # print the found digits } __DATA__ 800-1212 1-800-800-1212 1(800)800-1212 1 (800) 800-1212 1 800 800 1212` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Numbers only in a string by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 08, 2005 at 15:51 UTC
You're sort of on the right track... `s/[^0-9]+//g;` [download] That will get the RE to do what you're trying to do. Dave	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Numbers only in a string by socketdave (Curate) on Sep 08, 2005 at 16:01 UTC
`$phone =~ s/\D\|^1//g;` Same as davido and sk, but also strips a leading 1 from the number.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Numbers only in a string by trammell (Priest) on Sep 08, 2005 at 16:26 UTC
`my $s = '1-(800)-223-5555'; (my $n = $s) =~ y/0-9//cd;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Benchmark time: Numbers only in a string by polettix (Vicar) on Sep 08, 2005 at 17:26 UTC
I was just curious about it, so here you go: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ); my @data = split /\n/, <<END; 800-800-1212 (800)800-1212 (800) 800-1212 800 800 1212 END sub dosloop { my $re = shift; (my $phone = $_) =~ s/$re//g foreach @data; } sub doyloop { my $fake = shift; (my $phone = $_) =~ y/0-9//cd foreach @data; } cmpthese(-10, { single => sub { dosloop(qr/\D/) }, multiple=> sub { dosloop(qr/\D+/) }, y => sub { doyloop(qr/\D/) }, # Just a fake parameter } );` [download] I tried to be as fair as possible and have the same overhead for all calls. The results are the following: `Rate multiple single y multiple 95932/s -- -6% -39% single 101881/s 6% -- -35% y 156303/s 63% 53% --` [download] The simple translation outperforms the other, as expected. I was particularly curious about putting the '+' or not. I vaguely remember some discussion about it before, but I couldn't tell you where. Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Numbers only in a string by saberworks (Curate) on Sep 08, 2005 at 16:01 UTC
`s/[\D]+//g;` \D is the opposite of \d so it will replace anything that's not a digit.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Numbers only in a string by davidrw (Prior) on Sep 08, 2005 at 16:23 UTC
don't need to use a character class here -- just: `s/\D+//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Numbers only in a string by sh1tn (Priest) on Sep 08, 2005 at 16:34 UTC
`while(<SOME_INPUT>){ $digits_only .= (join '', split /\D+/) . $/ }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Numbers only in a string by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Sep 09, 2005 at 12:06 UTC
Another job for tr: `$phone =~ tr/0-9//dc;` [download] [oops, didn't see trammell's reply when I posted this redundant one] Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]