(PHP 4, PHP 5)
eregi — Case insensitive regular expression match
This function was DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3.0, and REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
Alternatives to this function include:
i
(PCRE_CASELESS
)
modifier)
$pattern
, string $string
[, array &$regs
] ) : intThis function is identical to ereg() except that it ignores case distinction when matching alphabetic characters.
pattern
Case insensitive regular expression.
string
The input string.
regs
If matches are found for parenthesized substrings of
pattern
and the function is called with the
third argument regs
, the matches will be stored
in the elements of the array regs
.
$regs[1] will contain the substring which starts at the first left parenthesis; $regs[2] will contain the substring starting at the second, and so on. $regs[0] will contain a copy of the complete string matched.
Returns the length of the matched string if a match for
pattern
was found in string
,
or FALSE
if no matches were found or an error occurred.
If the optional parameter regs
was not passed or
the length of the matched string is 0
, this function returns 1
.
Example #1 eregi() example
<?php
$string = 'XYZ';
if (eregi('z', $string)) {
echo "'$string' contains a 'z' or 'Z'!";
}
?>