For whatever reason if you are looking to remove all instances of numbers from a string in PHP, use the simple function I deviced below. [php] function remove_numbers($string) { $num = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0); return str_replace($num, '', $string); } [/php] Examples of using the number removing function. [php] echo remove_numbers('123kicks'); //echoes kicks echo remove_numbers('0t4r45i34c525k345s983!4 ...