mb_ereg_search

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mb_ereg_search — Multibyte regular expression match for predefined multibyte string

Description

mb_ereg_search(?string$pattern = null, ?string$options = null): bool

Performs a multibyte regular expression match for a predefined multibyte string.

Parameters

pattern: The search pattern.
options: The search option. See mb_regex_set_options() for explanation.

Return Values

mb_ereg_search() returns true if the multibyte string matches with the regular expression, or false otherwise. The string for matching is set by mb_ereg_search_init(). If pattern is not specified, the previous one is used.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	`pattern` and `options` are nullable now.

Notes

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