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Benjamin Delespierre

Here's another one for you: extract variables from string using patterns

$str = "123:456";

preg_match('/(\d+):(\d+)/', $str, $matches);

list(, $a, $b) = $matches + [null, null, null];

var_dump($a, $b); // 123, 456
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