I have these multiple strings like the 3 below
- Framing 50mm x 100mmx3.0m
- Loglap 22x100x4.5
- Decking 32 x 150 @3.0
What i want to do is extract the numbers into an array.
The numbers for each are either separated by @ or x
So for Framing the first array value is 50, second is 100, third is 3.0
I was thinking of using explode but the strings format aren't consistent.
How do i solve?
You can simply use preg_match_all like as
$str = "Framing 50mm x 100mmx3.0m";
preg_match_all('/([\d.]+)/',$str,$m);
print_r($m[0]);
Output:
Array
(
[0] => 50
[1] => 100
[2] => 3.0
)
You can use
$string = "50mm x 100mmx3.0m";
$formated = preg_replace("/[^0-9,.]/", ",", $string);
To replace all non-numeric values from a string and replace it with commas so it can be easier to convert to array, but the problem will be that the string that you want might be full of commas after commas.
The above code will result in: 50,,,,,100,,,3.0,
So, the solution COULD be, replace double commas with an empty value.
$formated = str_replace(",,", "", $formated);
Now you have: 50,100,3.0,
Exploding it will result in an array of numbers:
$array = explode(",", $formated);
Now you have ["50", "100", "3.0"]
xor@denote anything specific, or is the only thing you're interested in the actual numbers themselves?xand@are just separators.