PHP Extract numbers from a string

Question

I want to extract numbers from a string in PHP like following :

if the string = \'make1to6\' i would like to extract the numeric charac

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression as such, it should match exactly your specification:

$string = 'make6to12';
preg_match('{^.*?(?P\d{1,2})to(?P\d{1,2})}m', $string, $match);
echo $match['before'].', '.$match['after']; // 6, 12