6 character long string matching using php regular expression

Question

I've the following string

1=>    Stephen Avenue 700 Center St SE Calgary, AB T2G5P6

2=> Montgomery 4611 Bowness Rd NW Calgary, AB T3B0S4

3=> Uptown 17th Ave 1022 17 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2T0A5

and I want to get T2G5P6 from first, T3B0S4 from 2nd and T2T0A5 from 3rd using regular expressions Thanks

That is not a good enough quantifier: `'Avenue'` is also a 6 char string — sshashank124, Apr 09 '14 at 10:21
I want to get `T2G5P6` mean combination of integers and characters. — M K, Apr 09 '14 at 10:25
@Mubin, ask what you want to achieve in general, not in the particular row of yours. — Rolice, Apr 09 '14 at 10:25
@ Rolice, I get this address string from a page and I want to get the zip code from that — M K, Apr 09 '14 at 10:26
Is is always preceeded by 2 char string? Is it always upper case? — Rolice, Apr 09 '14 at 10:27
Ok, have you tried to search in SO before posting there are a lot of question on this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10529103/825114 - this is with cases for different countries also. — Rolice, Apr 09 '14 at 10:30
@Mubin for starters you can post at least 5-10 sample text and the output you nedd, then only we can help dear — aelor, Apr 09 '14 at 10:34

aelor · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-09T10:40:45.223

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you can get T2G5P6 using regular expressions. Of course you can.

use this regex :

/T2G5P6/

on a serious note:

if you say these rules about your pincode

then this regex will be helpful for you :

[A-Z0-9]{6}

edited Apr 09 '14 at 10:40

answered Apr 09 '14 at 10:26

aelor

OK, but this is sample query, I mean I want regular expression that could extract this string and same like this string from other strings that I provide to it – M K Apr 09 '14 at 10:30
"*same like this string from other strings*" — Without knowing what *you* consider to be "same", we cannot really answer that. – Amal Murali Apr 09 '14 at 10:31
@Mubin To be honest, aelor did answer your question. If you update it and be a little more specific I'm sure we'll be glad to help – ScottMcGready Apr 09 '14 at 10:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 09 '14 at 10:37

1

Use this ([A-Z0-9]{6}) pattern to get the 6 characters from your string

Demo

http://regex101.com/r/wY2tZ5

answered Apr 09 '14 at 10:37

Nambi

Martyn · Answer 3 · 2014-04-09T10:40:13.173

0

If it always going to be LetterDigitLetterDigitLetterDigit you can use

([a-zA-Z]\d){3}

edited Apr 09 '14 at 10:40

answered Apr 09 '14 at 10:34

Martyn

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