mb_ereg_search_pos

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string

array mb_ereg_search_pos ([ string $pattern [, string $option = "ms" ]] )

Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string

The string for match is specified by mb_ereg_search_init(). If it is not specified, the previous one will be used.

Parameters:

pattern

The search pattern.

option

The search option.

Returns:

An array containing two elements. The first element is the offset, in bytes, where the match begins relative to the start of the search string, and the second element is the length in bytes of the match.

If an error occurs, FALSE is returned.

Notes:

The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding() will be used as the character encoding for this function.