mb_ereg

Regular expression match with multibyte support.

mb_ereg Function synopsis

#[\Deprecated]
mb_ereg(
    string $pattern,
    string $string,
    &$matches = null
  ): bool

Parameters

$pattern

Typestring

The search pattern.

$string

Typestring

The search string.

$matches

Passed by reference, OptionalDefault valuenull

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.

Note that the parameter $matches is passed by reference, and contains additional/updated context data that may be useful.

Return value

Typebool

Returns whether $pattern matches $string.