Find the position of the first occurrence of any number in string - php

Question

Can someone help me with algorithm for finding the position of the first occurrence of any number in a string?
The code I found on the web does not work:
function my_offset($text){
preg_match('/^[^\-]*-\D*/', $text, $m);
return strlen($m[0]);
}
echo my_offset('[HorribleSubs] Bleach - 311 [720p].mkv');

Answer 1

The built-in PHP function strcspn() will do the same as the function in Stanislav Shabalin's answer when used like so:
strcspn( $str , '0123456789' )
Examples:
echo strcspn( 'That will be $2.95 with a coupon.' , '0123456789' ); // 14
echo strcspn( '12 people said yes' , '0123456789' ); // 0
echo strcspn( 'You are number one!' , '0123456789' ); // 19
HTH

Answer 2

function my_offset($text) {
preg_match('/\d/', $text, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
if (sizeof($m))
return $m[0][1]; // 24 in your example
// return anything you need for the case when there's no numbers in the string
return strlen($text);
}

Answer 3

function my_ofset($text){
preg_match('/^\D*(?=\d)/', $text, $m);
return isset($m[0]) ? strlen($m[0]) : false;
}
should work for this. The original code required a - to come before the first number, perhaps that was the problem?

Answer 4

I can do regular expressions but I have to go into an altered state to
remember what it does after I've coded it.
Here is a simple PHP function you can use...
function findFirstNum($myString) {
$slength = strlen($myString);
for ($index = 0; $index < $slength; $index++)
{
$char = substr($myString, $index, 1);
if (is_numeric($char))
{
return $index;
}
}
return 0; //no numbers found
}

Answer 5

Problem
Find the first occurring number in a string
Solution
Here is a non regex solution in javascript
var findFirstNum = function(str) {
let i = 0;
let result = "";
let value;
while (i<str.length) {
if(!isNaN(parseInt(str[i]))) {
if (str[i-1] === "-") {
result = "-";
}
while (!isNaN(parseInt(str[i])) && i<str.length) {
result = result + str[i];
i++;
}
break;
}
i++;
}
return parseInt(result);
};
Example Input
findFirstNum("words and -987 555");
Output
-987