You can use regular expressions for this. The \d
escape sequence will match all digits in the subject string.
For example:
<?php
function get_numerics ($str) {
preg_match_all('/\d+/', $str, $matches);
return $matches[0];
}
$one="foo bar 4 baz (5 qux quux)";
$two = 'bar baz 2 bar';
$three="qux bar 12 quux (3 foo)";
$four="foo baz 3 bar (13 quux foo)";
print_r(get_numerics($one));
print_r(get_numerics($two));
print_r(get_numerics($three));
print_r(get_numerics($four));