php中的基本字符串分隔

Question

I have an alphanumeric string like 1234and5678. I want to store the numbers preceding and i.e 1234 into one variable and the number after and i.e 5678 into another variable as shown below:

$var1=1234;
$var2=5678;

also what should do if i replace and by some random special characters like #$% etc.

Can you please help me out? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

$string = "1234and5678";
list($before, $after) = explode("and", $string);

This splits the string into two variables based on the delimeter ("and"), whatever is before and is saved in a variable called $before, whatever is after is saved into a variable called $after