Help with Strings

[optimo]

Hello all. I have a string that I need to seperate. the format is
always 'letters' then 'numbers' ( example: php3781038 ). The amount of 'letters' and 'numbers' can vary. So how do I seperate the two into different variables? Do I need to use regular expressions?

Thanks in advance.

[Jeb_]

Yes, you will need to use regular expressions.

[optimo]

ok here is how I did it. Does anyone know how to combine it into one ereg function?

ereg("[0-9]+", "php123456", $number);
ereg("[a-zA-Z]+", "php123456", $letters);

[laserlight]

This example (with redundant variables to make it clearer) could be a possible solution:

<?php
$str = "php1234";
$pattern = "/([a-z]+|[0-9]+)/i";
$subject = "php3781038";
$flags = PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE;
$stuff = preg_split($pattern, $subject, -1, $flags);
print_r($stuff);
?>

[optimo]

Thank you, I would have never gotten that on my own.