Question

I have a bunch of strings in php that all look like this:

10 NE HARRISBURG
4 E HASWELL
2 SE OAKLEY
6 SE REDBIRD
PROVO
6 W EADS
21 N HARRISON

What I am needing to do is remove the numbers and the letters from before the city names. The problem I am having is that it varies a lot from city to city. The data is almost never the same. Is it possible to remove this data and keep it in a separate string?

Answer 1

See if the following works for you:

$new_str = preg_replace('/^([0-9]* \w+ )?(.*)$/', '$2', $str);