mb_ereg_search_pos
(4.2.0 - 4.3.2 only)
mb_ereg_search_pos -- Return position and length of matched part of multibyte regular expression for predefined multibyte stringDescription
array mb_ereg_search_pos ( [string pattern [, string option]])| Warning |
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mb_ereg_search_pos() returns an array including position of matched part for multibyte regular expression. The first element of the array will be the beggining of matched part, the second element will be length (bytes) of matched part. It returns FALSE on error.
The string for match is specified by mb_ereg_search_init(). It it is not specified, the previous one will be used.
The internal encoding or the character encoding specified in mb_regex_encoding() will be used as character encoding.
Note: This function is supported in PHP 4.2.0 or higher.
See also: mb_regex_encoding(), mb_ereg_search_init().