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<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mb_ereg_search</span> — <span class="dc-title">Multibyte regular expression match for predefined multibyte string</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mb_ereg_search</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$pattern</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$option</code><span class="initializer"> = "ms"</span></span>
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Performs a multibyte regular expression match for a predefined multibyte string.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">pattern</code></em></span>
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The search pattern.
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">option</code></em></span>
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The search option.
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</dd>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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<span class="function"><strong>mb_ereg_search()</strong></span> returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> if the
multibyte string matches with the regular expression, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>
otherwise. The <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> for matching is set by
<span class="function"><a href="function.mb-ereg-search-init.html" class="function">mb_ereg_search_init()</a></span>. If
<em><code class="parameter">pattern</code></em> is not specified, the previous one
is used.
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<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para">The internal encoding or the
character encoding specified by <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-regex-encoding.html" class="function">mb_regex_encoding()</a></span>
will be used as the character encoding for this function.</p></p></blockquote>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-regex-encoding.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_regex_encoding()</a> - Set/Get character encoding for multibyte regex</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-ereg-search-init.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_ereg_search_init()</a> - Setup string and regular expression for a multibyte regular expression match</span></li>
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