Extract a single integer from a string

Question

I want to extract the digits from a string that contains numbers and letters like:

"In My Cart : 11 items"

I want to extract the nu

Answer 1

Depending on your use case, this might also be an option:

$str = 'In My Cart : 11 items';
$num = '';

for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($str); $i++) {

    if (is_numeric($str[$i])) {
        $num .= $str[$i];
    }
}

echo $num; // 11

Though I'd agree a regex or filter_var() would be more useful in the stated case.