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

You can use a regex for that.

preg_match('/(\d{1,4})([a-z]+)/i', $str, $matches);
array_shift($matches);
list($num, $alpha) = $matches;