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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to search for a pattern a string? Post 302247794 by Leo_NN on Thursday 16th of October 2008 11:09:23 AM
Old 10-16-2008
Sorry, probably misstyped it , so how it works?
If it returns '1' then stringB is within stringA , right?


Quote:
> echo $stringA
CUSTOMER HOUSEHOLD QUOTE POLICY
> echo $stringB
PPPPPPP
> echo `expr index "$stringA" "$stringB"`
26
> stringB="POLICY"
> echo `expr index "$stringA" "$stringB"`
1
 

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MB_EREG_SEARCH_INIT(3)							 1						    MB_EREG_SEARCH_INIT(3)

mb_ereg_search_init - Setup string and regular expression for a multibyte regular expression match

SYNOPSIS
bool mb_ereg_search_init (string $string, [string $pattern], [string $option = "msr"]) DESCRIPTION
mb_ereg_search_init(3) sets $string and $pattern for a multibyte regular expression. These values are used for mb_ereg_search(3), mb_ereg_search_pos(3), and mb_ereg_search_regs(3). PARAMETERS
o $string - The search string. o $pattern - The search pattern. o $option - The search option. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. NOTES
Note The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding(3) will be used as the character encoding for this function. SEE ALSO
mb_regex_encoding(3), mb_ereg_search_regs(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_EREG_SEARCH_INIT(3)
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