php regular expression to convert string followed by number into multiple strings each followed by one of the digits

Question

how to i replace

Apple 123456

to

Apple 1|Apple 2|Apple 3|Apple 4|Apple 5|Apple 6

by php pcre?

Answer 1

With this one you get partially what you want:

That results in: Apple Apple 1|Apple 2|Apple 3|Apple 4|Apple 5|Apple 6|

For removing the first "Apple" you could str_replace() or explode() the initial string, resulting something like

The result here is Apple 1|Apple 2|Apple 3|Apple 4|Apple 5|Apple 6|. You can remove the last pipe by using substr($result, 0, -1).

The final code will look like this: