Question

I need a help with regex for MPN patterns, mostly for this one:

Bosch HBA13B250B Built-in Electric Single Oven    

so 3 letters followed by at least 1 digit and then until word boundry is reached should extract

HBA13B250B    

Do you have any ideas how to put it into regex pattern?

Answer 1

Use this:

preg_match('#\b([A-Z]{3}[0-9].*?)\b#', $text, $match);

or, to better restrict possible values:

preg_match('#\b([A-Z]{3}[0-9][0-9A-Z]*)\b#', $text, $match);