PHP split string into integer element and string

Question

I have a string say: Order_num = \"0982asdlkj\"

How can I split that into the 2 variables, with the number element and then another variable with the le

Answer 1

Use preg_match() with a regular expression of (\d+)([a-zA-Z]+). If you want to limit the number of digits to 1-4 and letters to 6-9, change it to (\d+{1,4})([a-zA-Z]{6,9}).

preg_match("/(\\d+)([a-zA-Z]+)/", "0982asdlkj", $matches);
print("Integer component: " . $matches[1] . "\n");
print("Letter component: " . $matches[2] . "\n");

Outputs:

Integer component: 0982
Letter component: asdlkj

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