From time to time you have a string that contains numbers and letters and you need to split them.

This is very easy to do using Javascript.

Lets say you have this  string:

var string  = “due_date47″;

to create to vars that one will have “due_date” as value and the other “47″ do this:

<script type="text/javascript">var field = "due_date37";

var number=field.match(/\d/g).join('');

var nonnumber=field.match(/[^\d]/g).join('');

</script>

Easy!