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 regular expressions.

$string = 'make1to6';
if (preg_match('/(\d{1,10})to(\d{1,10})/', $string, $matches)) {
    $number1 = (int) $matches[1];
    $number2 = (int) $matches[2];
} else {
    // Not found...
}