How do I count numbers with php
$mynumbers="0855 468 4864 63848 1486"; //This is my variable, the pattern has to be like this, each number is separated by a space.
echo "There are 5 numbers in your variable";
It should return:
5
How do I do that, I know there's str_word_count but it only counts words not numbers.
This should work for you:
$str = "0855 468 4864 63848 1486";
preg_match_all("/\d+/", $str, $matches);
echo count($matches[0]);
Output:
5
"/\d+/" does?
\d matches [0-9], the quantifier + -> is for one to unlimited times (greedy)You can try explode() function for it as like :
$mynumbers="0855 468 4864 63848 1486";
$values = explode(" ", $mynumbers);
echo count($values);
Hope it helps
Use explode() for example:
$mynumbers = "0855 468 4864 63848 1486";
$exploded = explode(' ', $mynumbers);
echo 'There are '.count($exploded).' numbers in your variable.';
Simple single-line resolution:
$numCount = count(array_map(function($value){return is_numeric($value);}, explode(' ', $mynumbers)));
We exlplode the string into words, then return only numeric values from the resulting array and count them.
ignorethis 123 andthis) then you could loop through each item in the result and increment a counter if they are considered to be numeric.$exploded = explode(' ', $mynumbers); echo 'There are '.count($exploded).' numbers in your variable.';