php man page for mb_ereg

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mb_ereg - Regular expression match with multibyte support

SYNOPSIS
       int mb_ereg (string  $pattern, string  $string, [array  $regs])

DESCRIPTION
	Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support.

PARAMETERS
	      o $pattern
		- The search pattern.

	      o $string
		- The search string.

	      o $regs
		- Contains a substring of the matched string.

RETURN VALUES
	Executes  the  regular	expression  match  with multibyte support, and returns 1 if matches are found. If the optional $regs parameter was
       specified, the function returns the byte length of matched part, and the array$regs will contain the substring of matched string. The func-
       tion returns 1 if it matches with the empty string. If no matches are found or an error happens, FALSE will be returned.

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_eregi(3).

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