splitting strings

[Anon]

I have a piece of information in the format

AAANNN

ie: JJH321
or: Z12343
or: KBNH8234

There will always be a variable number of characters followed by an integer number of a variable length.

I want to split the string into 2 parts so that I can process the alphas and the numbers differently.

I think probably the answer is to use ereg() but I can't see how to handle the variable length of each part of the string.

Can anybody help ?

Thanks

Paul

[Anon]

PHP

[Anon]

eregi("[a-z]{1,}", $string);
$letters = $Regs[0];
ereg("[0-9]{1,}", $string);
$numbers = $Regs[0];

Andreas

[Anon]

Why not do it all at once?

if (eregi('^{([a-z]+)([0-9]+)$',} $string, $parts))
  {
  $letters = $parts[1];
  $numbers = $parts[2];
  }
else
  echo "String is not of the pattern AN!"'