Help with stripping value from return string

[eluser]kb1ibh[/eluser]
if there is no dash, and the solution above doesnt work, could you post some examples of these letter-number-letter combinations?


Edited to Add:
if there are no dashes, This might work... Havent had a chance to test it, but i dont think i made any serious errors

Code:

$string = YOUR_LETTER_NUMBER_LETTER_STRING;

preg_match("/([a-zA-Z]+)([0-9]+)([a-zA-Z]+)/", $string, $matches);

echo "part 1: " . $matches[0] . "\n";
echo "part 2: " . $matches[1] . "\n";
echo "part 3: " . $matches[2] . "\n";

It should work with both A1A and AAAAAA11111111AAAAAAAA, no matter how long the string is