title: PHP Remove Pound Sign (£) from price
body: <p>I have price value which has pound sign in front of it. I need to remove that sign.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$price = '£3.76' (This comes from database and is stored as a string within the database)
  
  1) preg_replace('/[\£]/', '', $price);
  2) ltrim($price, '£');
  3) str_replace(utf8_decode("£"),"",utf8_decode($price));
  4) str_replace('£', '', $price);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to use everything about but nothing worked. 1 and 4 replaces with Â and 2 and 3 adds Â to the left of the value. Can someone please help me.</p>