Change a variable?

[Spanger]

Current value of $totalviews: 987,654,321

I need to remove the commas so the script can do math functions on it.

So I need to change it to: 987654321

How can I do this?

Thanks!

Spanger

[jatar_k]

$totalviews = str_replace [php.net](',','',$totalviews);