John Davidson

Message:

Site users enter numbers in different ways, example:

from 8 000 packs

432534534

from 344454 packs

45054 packs

04 555

434654

54 564 packs

I am looking for a regular expression with which I could highlight words before digits (if there are any), digits in any format and words after (if there are any). It is advisable to exclude spaces.

Now I have such a design, but it does not work correctly.

(^[0-9|a-zA-Z].*?)\s([0-9].*?)\s([a-zA-Z]*$)

The main purpose of this is to put the strings in order, bring them to the same form, format them in PHP digit format, etc.

As a result, I need to get the text before the digits, the digits themselves and the text after them into the variables separately.

$before = 'from';

$num    = '8000';

$after  = 'packs';

Thank you for any help in this matter)

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My Answer:
You can use the following regular expression to achieve the desired result:

php
$pattern = '/([a-zA-Z]+)\s*([0-9]+)\s*([a-zA-Z]+)/';
$string = 'from 8 000 packs';

if (preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches)) {
$before = $matches[1];
$num = $matches[2];
$after = $matches[3];

echo "Before: $before\n";
echo "Number: $num\n";
echo "After: $after\n";
}


This regular expression will match a sequence of letters followed by a sequence of numbers followed by another sequence of letters, with optional spaces in between. You can then extract the matched groups into separate variables for further processing.