Question

I have for example such string – “7-th Road” or “7th number some other words” or “Some word 8-th word”.

I need to get the first occurrence of number and all other next symbols to first occurrence of space.

So for examples above i need such values “7-th”, “7th”, “8-th”.

And then from these matches like “7-th” i need extract only numbers in other operations.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Regex should be /(\d+)([^\d]+)\s/ and the numbers would resolve to $1 and the ending characters to $2

Sample Code:

$string = '7-th Road';
preg_match_all('/(\d+)([^\d]+)\s/', $string, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

var_dump($result[1]);
array(1) {
  [0]=> string(1) "7"
}

var_dump($result[2]);
array(1) {
  [0]=> string(1) "-th"
}