regular expressions / functions

php

function nc_fn_trim_number( $_num ) {
  return preg_replace("/[^0-9]/","",$_num);
}
function nc_fn_phone( $_label, $_num ) {
  return "<strong>$_label:</strong> <a class='cont_number' href='tel:+1" . nc_fn_trim_number( $_num ) . "'>$_num</a><br>";
}
function nc_fn_trim_words( $_string, $_length = 31 ) {
  return preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr($_string, 0, $_length ));
}
//  trim
function nc_fn_trim_chars( $str, $chars, $end = '...' ) {
  if (strlen($str) <= $chars) return $str;
  $new = substr($str, 0, $chars + 1);
  return substr($new, 0, strrpos($new, ' ')) . $end;
}

js

    //  get last portion after hash from url
    $(this).attr('href').replace(/^.*?(#|$)/,'');

phone numbers

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">