mb_ereg
Description
The mb_ereg of Multibyte String for PHP regular expression match with multibyte support.
Syntax
mb_ereg(
string $pattern,
string $string,
array &$matches = null
): boolParameters
pattern
The search pattern.
string
The search string.
matches
If matches are found for parenthesized substrings of pattern and the function is called with the third argument matches, the matches will be stored in the elements of the array matches. If no matches are found, matches is set to an empty array.
$matches[1] will contain the substring which starts at the first left parenthesis; $matches[2] will contain the substring starting at the second, and so on. $matches[0] will contain a copy of the complete string matched.
Return
Returns whether pattern matches string.
Examples
1 · pattern string
<? $pattern = '🐘(st(r(i)ng))'; $string = '🐘string'; $return = mb_ereg($pattern, $string); var_export($return); ?>
true
2 · matches
<? $pattern = '🐘(st(r(i)ng))'; $string = '🐘string'; $return = mb_ereg($pattern, $string, $matches); print_r($matches); ?>
Array
(
[0] => 🐘string
[1] => string
[2] => ring
[3] => i
)
Links
Multibyte String
- mb_check_encoding
- mb_chr
- mb_convert_case
- mb_convert_encoding
- mb_convert_kana
- mb_convert_variables
- mb_decode_mimeheader
- mb_decode_numericentity
- mb_detect_encoding
- mb_detect_order
- mb_encode_mimeheader
- mb_encode_numericentity
- mb_encoding_aliases
- mb_ereg_match
- mb_ereg_replace
- mb_ereg_replace_callback
- mb_ereg_search
- mb_ereg_search_getpos
- mb_ereg_search_getregs
- mb_ereg_search_init
- mb_ereg_search_pos
- mb_ereg_search_regs
- mb_ereg_search_setpos
- mb_eregi
- mb_eregi_replace
- mb_get_info
- mb_http_input
- mb_http_output
- mb_internal_encoding
- mb_language
- mb_list_encodings
- mb_ord
- mb_output_handler
- mb_parse_str
- mb_preferred_mime_name
- mb_regex_encoding
- mb_regex_set_options
- mb_scrub
- mb_send_mail
- mb_split
- mb_str_pad
- mb_str_split
- mb_strcut
- mb_strimwidth
- mb_stripos
- mb_stristr
- mb_strlen
- mb_strpos
- mb_strrchr
- mb_strrichr
- mb_strripos
- mb_strrpos
- mb_strstr
- mb_strtolower
- mb_strtoupper
- mb_strwidth
- mb_substitute_character
- mb_substr
- mb_substr_count
