One method is to use regular expressions e.g.:
$pattern = '/C([0-9]+)P/';
preg_match($pattern, $str, $matches);
$matches is an array. $matches[1] contains the number you want.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Negin Nickparsa <nickparsa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I have a string which always has "C" then a number which it's length can
> change anytime and then "P" and then a space and then a word
>
> like:
>
> echo "C60P1 Unit";
>
> is it anyway to split the string by type?
>
> from the manual I did this:
>
> function multiexplode ($delimiters,$string) {
> $ary = explode($delimiters[0],$string);
> array_shift($delimiters);
> if($delimiters != NULL) {
> foreach($ary as $key => $val) {
> $ary[$key] = multiexplode($delimiters, $val);
> }
> }
> return $ary;
> }
> echo "C60P1 Unit";
> $str="C60P1 Unit";
> $delimiters = Array("C","P"," ");
> $res = multiexplode($delimiters,$str);
> echo '<pre>';
> print_r($res);
> echo '</pre>';
>
> but it seems to me it is so complex for such a small string
> does anything for type exist which I don't know about to for example just
> grab the numbers?because I just care about the numbers here 60 and 1
> seperately
>
