Question

I need to be able to get a matching combination from a string. Example:

$mystring = "This is my text00123 blah blah";
$code = magicRegex( $mystring, "text"[0-9] );
return "you are a wizard - your code is " . $code;

Return:

you are a wizard - your code is text00123

Then, I need to separate the text from the integers into separate variables.

Answer 1

As another alternative, named catching:

\b(?<text>\w+?)(?<number>\d+)\b

Demo:

$str = "This is my text00123 blah blah";

$_ = null;
preg_match("/\b(?<text>\w+?)(?<number>\d+)\b/",$str,$_);
echo "Text: {$_[text]} -- Number: {$_[number]}";

Working Demo

Oops, reversed the arguments. ;p