How to store found numbers inside a string into an array in PHP

Question

Given a string:

$string = "Hello, 1992 world! Today's 2016! That's 24 years!";

How can I parse the string to return an array containing all the numbers inside?

Expected result:

{1992,2016,24}

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php – mboyde Oct 04 '16 at 07:07 — mboyde, Oct 04 '16 at 07:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '16 at 07:05

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Using the preg_match_all() you can achieve what you want-

$str = "Hello, 1992 world! Today's 2016! That's 24 years!";
preg_match_all('!\d+!', $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);

answered Oct 04 '16 at 07:05

Murad Hasan

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6278296/extract-numbers-from-a-string – mboyde Oct 04 '16 at 07:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 22 '22 at 16:25

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$str = "Hello, 1992 world! Today's 2016! That's 24 years!";
preg_match_all("!\d+!", $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);

edited Jul 22 '22 at 16:25

Martin

answered Oct 04 '16 at 07:51

Zahangir Ahammad

2 Answers2