在php中分隔句子和年份（数字）

Question

I have a string like "The beer party 2011/2012" in PHP.

I still cannot figure how to make these years and the sentence into two different arrays? Like this:

$arr[0] = the beer party;
$arr[1] = 2011/2012 or if its just 2011 then $arr[1] = 2011;

I have tried \d+ and \S+\s+ but do not know how to use it with combined.

Answer 1

preg_match('/(.*?)\s?(\d{4}(?:\/\d{4})*)$/', $yourString, $matches);

$matches[1] contains the sentence $matches[2] contains the date.