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standard.lib.preg.preg

Name Version Deprecated
preg version 1.0 no

Prototype:
array preg(string string_to_parse, string pattern[, number options])

Parameters:
string_to_parse      the string to be parsed
pattern      the pattern
options      a conbination of : PCRE_MULTILINE, PCRE_DOTALL, PCRE_EXTENDED, PCRE_ANCHORED, PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY, PCRE_EXTRA, PCRE_NOTBOL, PCRE_NOTEOL, PCRE_UNGREEDY, PCRE_NOTEMPTY, PCRE_UTF8, PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE, PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK, PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT, PCRE_PARTIAL, PCRE_DFA_SHORTEST, PCRE_DFA_RESTART, PCRE_FIRSTLINE

Description:
Split string by a regular expression . Returns an array containing substrings of string_to_parse split along boundaries matched by pattern.

Returns:
Returns a string describing an error, if an error was encountered, or an array containing the matched strings if succeeded.

Documented by Eduard Suica, generation time: Sun Jan 27 18:15:16 2013 GMT(c)2013 Devronium Applications