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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Selecting nearest pattern match Post 302938693 by balajesuri on Wednesday 18th of March 2015 12:13:11 PM
Old 03-18-2015
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MB_EREG_SEARCH_GETPOS(3)						 1						  MB_EREG_SEARCH_GETPOS(3)

mb_ereg_search_getpos - Returns start point for next regular expression match

SYNOPSIS
int mb_ereg_search_getpos (void ) DESCRIPTION
Returns the start point for the next regular expression match. PARAMETERS
This function has no parameters. RETURN VALUES
mb_ereg_search_getpos(3) returns the point to start regular expression match for mb_ereg_search(3), mb_ereg_search_pos(3), mb_ereg_search_regs(3). The position is represented by bytes from the head of string. 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_setpos(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_EREG_SEARCH_GETPOS(3)
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