I have a product that is sold to multiple customers, each customer has its own unique product code derived from the my original product code e.g
My code: 1245-65
Customer 1: 1245/65
Customer 2: 1245.65
My question: Is there any way to analyse such a string and find what is separating its integers? My goal is to have a settings page where a demo customer code would be entered then all product codes would be derived from that example code. I'm sure PHP can handle this!
EXTRA INFO:
Sorry, I haven't given enough information. There might be a situation where the separator is an alphabetical quantity e.g 1245ABC65. I hate updating a question like this when so many people have given valid answers :( my fault.
You may want to look for non numeric characters using preg_match_all
preg_match_all('/[^0-9]/', '1245-95', $matches);
print_r($matches);
//Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => - ) ) in the example
With the updated question, you have to write :
$str = '1245ABC65';
preg_match("/\d+([^0-9]+)\d+/", $str, $separator);
echo $separator = $separator[1];
or
preg_match_all('/[^0-9]+/', '1245ABC95', $matches);
print_r($matches);
//Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 'ABC' ) ) in the example
You can use a regular expression to find the separator.
$str = '1245/65';
preg_match("/\d+(.)\d+/", $str, $separator);
$separator = $separator[1];
Use preg_split and regular expressions, to search for others characters than numbers.
$separador = preg_split ('/\d/', '1234/65', -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
$separador = $separador[0];