eregi
Case insensitive regular expression match
Warning
This function was DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3.0, and
REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
Alternatives to this function include:
-
preg_match
(with the i (
PCRE_CASELESS)
modifier)
Description
int eregi
( string $pattern
, string $string
[, array &$regs
] )
Parameters
-
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.
Return Values
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.
Examples
Example #1 eregi example
<?php
$string = 'XYZ';
if (eregi('z', $string)) {
echo "'$string' contains a 'z' or 'Z'!";
}
?>
See Also
- ereg
- ereg_replace
- eregi_replace
- preg_match
- stripos
- stristr
- quotemeta