yeah I did this one myself: preg_match('/([a-z]+)(\d+)([a-z]+)(\d+)/i', $str, $matches); Sincerely Negin Nickparsa On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Shawn McKenzie <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > preg_match_all('/\d+/', $str, $matches); > > print_r($matches); > > Or to make sure the delimiters are there: > > preg_match('/C(\d+)P(\d+)/', $str, $matches); > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Negin Nickparsa <nickparsa@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> I have a string which always has "C" then a number which it's length can >> change anytime and then "P" and then a space and then a word >> >> like: >> >> echo "C60P1 Unit"; >> >> is it anyway to split the string by type? >> >> from the manual I did this: >> >> function multiexplode ($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 >> > >