PHP Extract numbers from a string

Question

I want to extract numbers from a string in PHP like following :

if the string = \'make1to6\' i would like to extract the numeric charac

Answer 1

You could use preg_match_all to achive this:

function getNumbersFromString($str) {
    $matches = array();
    preg_match_all("/([0-9]+)/",$str,$matches);
    return $matches;
}
$matches = getNumbersFromString("hej 12jippi77");