<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Regular expression match ignoring case with multibyte support</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.mb-eregi-replace.html">mb_eregi_replace</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.mb-get-info.html">mb_get_info</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.mbstring.html">Multibyte String Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.mb-eregi" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">mb_eregi</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mb_eregi</span> — <span class="dc-title">Regular expression match ignoring case with multibyte support</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.mb-eregi-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mb_eregi</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$pattern</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$string</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">array</span> <code class="parameter">$regs</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="simpara"> Executes the case insensitive regular expression match with multibyte support. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.mb-eregi-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">pattern</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The regular expression pattern. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">string</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> being searched. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">regs</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Contains a substring of the matched <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mb-eregi-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="simpara"> Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support, and returns <em>1</em> if matches are found. If the optional <em><code class="parameter">regs</code></em> parameter was specified, the function returns the byte length of matched part, and the <span class="type"><a href="language.types.array.html" class="type array">array</a></span> <em><code class="parameter">regs</code></em> will contain the substring of matched string. The function returns <em>1</em> if it matches with the empty string. If no matches are found or an error happens, <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> will be returned. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.mb-eregi-notes"> <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> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.mb-eregi-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <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.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_ereg()</a> - Regular expression match with multibyte support</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.mb-eregi-replace.html">mb_eregi_replace</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.mb-get-info.html">mb_get_info</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.mbstring.html">Multibyte String Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>