I have some strings which can be in the following format
sometext moretext 01 text text sometext moretext 002 text text 1 (somemoretext) etc
I want to split these strings into following: text before the number and the number
For example: text text 1 (somemoretext)
When split will output:
text = text text
number = 1
Anything after the number can be discarded
Have read up about using regular expressions and maybe using preg_match or preg_split but am lost when it comes to the regular expression part
preg_match('/[^\d]+/', $string, $textMatch);
preg_match('/\d+/', $string, $numMatch);
$text = $textMatch[0];
$num = $numMatch[0];
Alternatively, you can use preg_match_all
with capture groups to do it all in one shot:
preg_match_all('/^([^\d]+)(\d+)/', $string, $match);
$text = $match[1][0];
$num = $match[2][0];