Question

I have a product that is sold to multiple customers, each customer has its own unique product code derived from the my original product code e.g

My code: 1245-65

Customer 1: 1245/65

Customer 2: 1245.65

My question: Is there any way to analyse such a string and find what is separating its integers? My goal is to have a settings page where a demo customer code would be entered then all product codes would be derived from that example code. I’m sure PHP can handle this!

EXTRA INFO:

Sorry, I haven’t given enough information. There might be a situation where the separator is an alphabetical quantity e.g 1245ABC65. I hate updating a question like this when so many people have given valid answers 🙁 my fault.

Answer 1

You may want to look for non numeric characters using preg_match_all

preg_match_all('/[^0-9]/', '1245-95', $matches);
print_r($matches);

//Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => - ) ) in the example

With the updated question, you have to write :

$str = '1245ABC65';
preg_match("/\d+([^0-9]+)\d+/", $str, $separator);
echo $separator = $separator[1];

or

preg_match_all('/[^0-9]+/', '1245ABC95', $matches);
print_r($matches);

//Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 'ABC' ) ) in the example