mb_ereg()

mb_ereg - Regular expression match with multibyte support

Syntax

int mb_ereg (string $pattern, string $string, array $regs)

Arguments

• pattern - The search pattern.
• string - The search string.
• regs - Contains a substring of the matched string.

Description

Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support.

Version

PHP 4.2.0, 5

Return value

Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support, and returns 1if matches are found. If the optional regs parameter was specified, the function returns the byte length of matched part, and the array regs will contain the substring of matched string. The function returns 1if it matches with the empty string. If no matches are found or an error happens, FALSE will be returned.