smarty regex_replace no longer working in PHP8.030 (Smarty 3?)

 Hi Francesca Shiekh , could share some "input values" for the annual_shipping_cost_c? how about something like:

{if $fields.annual_shipping_cost_c|regex_replace:"/^[^\d]*([0-9\.]+)/":"$1" gt 0}

or even yours:

{if $fields.annual_shipping_cost_c|regex_replace:"/^./":"$1" gt 0} print this {/if}

 Hi Francesca Shiekh , could share some "input values" for the annual_shipping_cost_c? how about something like:

{if $fields.annual_shipping_cost_c|regex_replace:"/^[^\d]*([0-9\.]+)/":"$1" gt 0}

or even yours:

{if $fields.annual_shipping_cost_c|regex_replace:"/^./":"$1" gt 0} print this {/if}

The values passed in are things like $10.00 or ¥1500.00 

The idea was to remove the symbol and check the value to see if it was gt 0 and it worked fine until the PHP upgrade in preparation for 13->14 upgrade.

I tried to do a regexp with the specific currency symbols we use: $, ¥, €, £ but when I save the HTML everything except $ gets replaced with HTML encoding and messes everything up.

I manage all my PDFManager code in the HTML format (not the WYSIWYG) because i have a customization to use CSS to format the final document (I struggled too hard for too long to get the OOTHB to render properly), but when I save the HTML it sometimes, not always, it converts random things, including quotes,  into HTML encoding, which drives me nuts!

In the end, after a three hour struggle with every attempt under the sun and every piece of documentation I could find for smarty, I added a calculated Float field that copies the amount and use that to check gt 0 avoiding quotes and symbols.

Because I'm on premise I can easily copy the amount to that new column for every record with a quick update statement from the back-end.

I can tell you I am not looking forward to finding an alternative for this, since it doesn't look like DocMerge will fit our needs and PDF manager is becoming less and less reliable.