Splitting strings in to array by intergers in the string using php

Question

I have this example string.

$string = "There four of them. These are: 1 The first one. Its is the most common. 2 The second one. 3 The third one. 4 This is the last.";

I wanted to split into array containing information given in the above $string. I want it to look like this.

Array ( 
   [0] => The first one. Its is the most common. 
   [1] => The second one.
   [2] => The third one.
   [3] => This is the last.
)

Can any help me with it. Thank you.

explode(". ",$string );

Md Hasibur Rahaman
– Md Hasibur Rahaman

2016-11-08 13:22:01 +00:00
Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 13:22 — Md Hasibur Rahaman
– Md Hasibur Rahaman, Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 13:22
But the first array contains two dots(.) s

Jote
– Jote

2016-11-08 13:22:56 +00:00
Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 13:22 — Jote
– Jote, Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 13:22

phpchap · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-08 13:28:04Z

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You can use preg_split to split the string by integers, for example:

$string = "There four of them. These are: 1 The first one. Its is the most common. 2 The second one. 3 The third one. 4 This is the last.";

$matches = preg_split('/\d+/', $string);

var_dump($matches);

answered Nov 8, 2016 at 13:28

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Jote Over a year ago

Thank you. It worked. It counts numbers of characters. But I user print_r() . Thanks.

Mohammad Over a year ago

But the $matches[0] is additional.

Mohammad · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-08 13:28:58Z

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You can use regex in preg_match_all() to select target part of string. The regex select string between two digits.

preg_match_all("/\d+([^\d]+)/", $string, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

See result in demo

answered Nov 8, 2016 at 13:28

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