How to separate letters and digits from a string in php

Question

I have a string which is combination of letters and digits. For my application i have to separate a string with letters and digits: ex:If my string is \"12jan\" i hav to ge

Answer 1

$string = "12312313sdfsdf24234";
preg_match_all('/([0-9]+|[a-zA-Z]+)/',$string,$matches);
print_r($matches);

this might work alot better