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Harinder
Harinder

Reputation: 1257

PHP Explode from first number (integer)

I want to explode some test with first number (integer) in it . Here are some words .

Avant Browser 2013 Build 110

Firefox 23.0 Beta 10

Google Chrome 29.0.1547.41 Beta

i am trying this but its not working.

$in ='Avant Browser 2013 Build 110';

preg_match("/\d[^A-Za-z]+([A-Za-z\s]+)/", $in, $match);

echo $match[0];

Output needed is :-

Avant Browser

Firefox

Google Chrome

Please help

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1083

Answers (3)

invisal
invisal

Reputation: 11181

Try this regex:

^[^0-9]+    // get all non-numeric character and stop when it meets numeric character..

Upvotes: 4

Ivan Buttinoni
Ivan Buttinoni

Reputation: 4145

Here usng preg_match_all

$txt =<<<EOT
Avant Browser 2013 Build 110
Firefox 23.0 Beta 10
Google Chrome 29.0.1547.41 Beta
EOT;

preg_match_all('/^([^0-9]*)/m',$txt,$match);

var_dump($match);

Upvotes: 2

Sergio
Sergio

Reputation: 6948

Try this regex:

^.*?(?=\d)    //start lookup from linestart, get all symbols before first number occurance

Upvotes: 4

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