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 can use this:

// $str holds the string in question
if (preg_match('/(\d+)to(\d+)/', $str, $matches)) {
    $number1 = $matches[1];
    $number2 = $matches[2];
}