mb_ereg_search_pos

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_ereg_search_pos — Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string

Description

array mb_ereg_search_pos ([ string $pattern [, string $option = "ms" ]] )

Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string

The string for match is specified by mb_ereg_search_init(). If it is not specified, the previous one will be used.

Parameters

pattern

The search pattern.

option

The search option.

Return Values

An array including the position of a matched part for a multibyte regular expression. The first element of the array will be the beginning of matched part, the second element will be length (bytes) of matched part. It returns FALSE on error.

Notes

Note:

The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding() will be used as the character encoding for this function.

See Also

• mb_regex_encoding() - Returns current encoding for multibyte regex as string
• mb_ereg_search_init() - Setup string and regular expression for a multibyte regular expression match