remove "+" or "0" from a telephone number string <p>i need in php a regular expression to remove from a string of telephone numbers the + or the 0 at the beginning of a number</p> <p>i have this function to remove every not-number characters</p> <pre><code>ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $sPhoneNumber) </code></pre> <p>but i need something better, all these examples should be...</p> <pre><code>$sPhoneNumber = "+3999999999999" $sPhoneNumber = "003999999999999" $sPhoneNumber = "3999999999999" $sPhoneNumber = "39 99999999999" $sPhoneNumber = "+ 39 999 99999999" $sPhoneNumber = "0039 99999999999" </code></pre> <p>... like this</p> <pre><code>$sPhoneNumber = "3999999999999" </code></pre> <p>any suggestions, thank you very much!</p>