extracting numbers from string in php

Question

I'm wondering how to extract numbers from a string for example

$string = "1.8 to 250"

What i want to get is,

$a = 1.8
$b = 250

Thanks for any help provided

Answer 1

Try this :

$str = '1.8 to 250';
preg_match_all('!\d+!', $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);

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