phpregexpreg-match-alltext-extractionword-boundaries

Match all space-delimited "words" containing at least 1 letter and 1 number and may contain slashes and hyphens

I have the following string:

SEDCVBNT S800BG09 7GFHFGD6H 324235346 RHGF7U S8-00BG/09 7687678

and the following regex:

preg_match_all('/\b(?=.+[0-9])(?=.+[A-Z])[A-Z0-9-\/]{4,20}/i', $string, $matches)

What I'm trying to achieve is to return all of the whole "words" that:

Unfortunately, the above regex returns purely alphabetical and purely numeric words as well:

Array (
  [0] => Array (
      [0] => SEDCVBNT
      [1] => S800BG09
      [2] => 7GFHFGD6H
      [3] => 324235346
      [4] => RHGF7U
      [5] => S8-00BG/09
  )
)

I don't want SEDCVBNT or 324235346 to be returned.

Solution

  • Here is the raw regex: \b(?=\S*?\d)(?=\S*?[a-z])\S+?(?=$|\s)

    preg_match_all('/\b(?=\S*?\d)(?=\S*?[a-z])\S+?(?=$|\s)/i', $string, $matches)