How to remove all numbers from string?

For Western Arabic numbers (0-9):

$words = preg_replace('/[0-9]+/', '', $words);

For all numerals including Western Arabic (e.g. Indian):

$words = '????';
$words = preg_replace('/\d+/u', '', $words);
var_dump($words); // string(0) ""

• \d+ matches multiple numerals.
• The modifier /u enables unicode string treatment. This modifier is important, otherwise the numerals would not match.