mb_ereg
(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)
mb_ereg — Regular expression match with multibyte support
Description
int mb_ereg
( string
$pattern
, string $string
[, array $regs
] )Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support.
Parameters
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 function 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() will be used as the character encoding for this function.
See Also
- mb_regex_encoding() - Set/Get character encoding for multibyte regex
- mb_eregi() - Regular expression match ignoring case with multibyte support
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Hebrew regex tested on PHP 5, Ubuntu 8.04.
Seems to work fine without the mb_regex_encoding lines (commented out).
Didn't seem to work with \uxxxx (also commented out).
<?php
echo "Line ";
//mb_regex_encoding("ISO-8859-8");
//if(mb_ereg(".*([\u05d0-\u05ea]).*", $this->current_line))
if(mb_ereg(".*([א-ת]).*", $this->current_line))
{
echo "has";
}
else
{
echo "doesn't have";
}
echo " Hebrew characters.<br>";
//mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8");
?>
Note that mb_ereg() does not support the \uFFFF unicode syntax but uses \x{FFFF} instead:
<?PHP
$text = 'Peter is a boy.'; // english
$text = 'بيتر هو صبي.'; // arabic
//$text = 'פיטר הוא ילד.'; // hebrew
mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');
if(mb_ereg('[\x{0600}-\x{06FF}]', $text)) // arabic range
//if(mb_ereg('[\x{0590}-\x{05FF}]', $text)) // hebrew range
{
echo "Text has some arabic/hebrew characters.";
}
else
{
echo "Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.";
}
?>
While hardly mentioned anywhere, it may be useful to note that mb_ereg uses Oniguruma library internally. The syntax for the default mode (ruby) is described here:
http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt
mb_ereg() seems unable to Use "named subpattern".
preg_match() seems a substitute only in UTF-8 encoding.
<?php
$text = 'multi_byte_string';
$pattern = '.*(?<name>string).*'; // "?P" causes "mbregex compile err" in PHP 5.3.5
if(mb_ereg($pattern, $text, $matches)){
echo '<pre>'.print_r($matches, true).'</pre>';
}else{
echo 'no match';
}
?>
This code ignores "?<name>" in $pattern and displays below.
Array
(
[0] => multi_byte_string
[1] => string
)
$pattern = '/.*(?<name>string).*/u';
if(preg_match($pattern, $text, $matches)){
instead of lines 2 & 3
displays below (in UTF-8 encoding).
Array
(
[0] => multi_byte_string
[name] => string
[1] => string
)
Old link to Oniguruma regex syntax is not working anymore, there is a working one:https://github.com/geoffgarside/oniguruma/blob/master/Syntax.txt
I hope this information is shown somewhere on php.net.
According to "https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/PHP-5.6/ext/mbstring/oniguruma",
the bundled Oniguruma regex library version seems ...
4.7.1 between PHP 5.3 - 5.4.45,
5.9.2 between PHP 5.5 - 7.1.16,
6.3.0 since PHP 7.2 - .
<?php
// in PHP_VERSION 7.1
// WITHOUT $regs (3rd argument)
$int = mb_ereg('abcde', '_abcde_'); // [5 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(1)
$int = mb_ereg('ab', '_ab_'); // [2 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(1)
$int = mb_ereg('^', '_ab_'); // [0 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(1)
$int = mb_ereg('ab', '__'); // [not match]
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
$int = mb_ereg('', '_ab_'); // [error : empty pattern]
// Warning: mb_ereg(): empty pattern in ...
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
$int = mb_ereg('ab'); // [error : fewer arguments]
// Warning: mb_ereg() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in ...
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
// Without 3rd argument, mb_ereg() returns either int(1) or bool(false).
// WITH $regs (3rd argument)
$int = mb_ereg('abcde', '_abcde_', $regs);// [5 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(5)
var_dump($regs); // array(1) { [0]=> string(5) "abcde" }
$int = mb_ereg('ab', '_ab_', $regs); // [2 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(2)
var_dump($regs); // array(1) { [0]=> string(2) "ab" }
$int = mb_ereg('^', '_ab_', $regs); // [0 bytes match]
var_dump($int); // int(1)
var_dump($regs); // array(1) { [0]=> bool(false) }
$int = mb_ereg('ab', '__', $regs); // [not match]
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
var_dump($regs); // array(0) { }
$int = mb_ereg('', '_ab_', $regs); // [error : empty pattern]
// Warning: mb_ereg(): empty pattern in ...
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
var_dump($regs); // array(0) { }
$int = mb_ereg('ab'); // [error : fewer arguments]
// Warning: mb_ereg() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in ...
var_dump($int); // bool(false)
var_dump($regs); // array(0) { }
// With 3rd argument, mb_ereg() returns either int(how many bytes matched) or bool(false)
// and 3rd argument is a bit complicated.
?>
<?php
# What mb_ereg() returns & changes $_3rd_argument into
# (Just run this script)
function dump2str($var) {
ob_start();
var_dump($var);
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output;
}
# (PHP7)empty pattern returns bool(false) with Warning
# (PHP8)empty pattern throws ValueError
$emp_ptn = '';
try{
$emp_ptn.= dump2str(mb_ereg('', 'abcde'));
}catch(Exception | Error $e){
$emp_ptn.= get_class($e).'<br>';
$emp_ptn.= $e->getMessage();
$emp_ptn.= '<pre>'.$e->getTraceAsString().'</pre>';
}
echo
'PHP '.phpversion().'<br><br>'.
'# match<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("bcd", "abcde")).
' : mb_ereg("bcd", "abcde")<br><br>'.
'# match with 3rd argument<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("bcd", "abcde", $_3rd)).
' : mb_ereg("bcd", "abcde", $_3rd) // '.dump2str($_3rd).'<br><br>'.
'# match (0 byte)<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("^", "abcde")).
' : mb_ereg("^", "abcde")<br><br>'.
'# match (0 byte) with 3rd argument<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("^", "abcde", $_3rd)).
' : mb_ereg("^", "abcde", $_3rd) // '.dump2str($_3rd).'<br><br>'.
'# unmatch<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("f", "abcde")).
' : mb_ereg("f", "abcde")<br><br>'.
'# unmatch with 3rd argument<br>'.
dump2str(mb_ereg("f", "abcde", $_3rd)).
' : mb_ereg("f", "abcde", $_3rd) // '.dump2str($_3rd).'<br><br>'.
'# empty pattern<br>'.
$emp_ptn.
' : mb_ereg("", "abcde")<br><br>'.
'# empty pattern with 3rd argument<br>'.
$emp_ptn.
' : mb_ereg("", "abcde", $_3rd) // '.dump2str($_3rd).'<br><br>';
?>
mb_ereg() with a named-subpattern
never catches non-named-subpattern.
(Oniguruma's restriction)
<?php
$str = 'abcdefg';
$patternA = '\A(abcd)(.*)\z'; // both caught [1]abcd [2]efg
$patternB = '\A(abcd)(?<rest>.*)\z'; // non-named 'abcd' never caught
mb_ereg($patternA, $str, $match);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($match, true).'</pre>';
mb_ereg($patternB, $str, $match);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($match, true).'</pre>';
?>
Array
(
[0] => abcdefg
[1] => abcd
[2] => efg
)
Array
(
[0] => abcdefg
[1] => efg
[rest] => efg
)
One of the differences between preg_match() & mb_ereg()
about "captured parenthesized subpattern".
<?php
preg_match('/(abc)(.*)/', 'abc', $match);
var_dump($match);
mb_ereg('(abc)(.*)', 'abc', $match);
var_dump($match);
?>
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(3) "abc"
[1]=>
string(3) "abc"
[2]=>
string(0) "" // <-- "string"(0) "" : preg_match()
}
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(3) "abc"
[1]=>
string(3) "abc"
[2]=>
bool(false) // <-- "bool"(false) : mb_ereg()
}
If adding ".*" at the end of the pattern returns "false"
whereas only one "." returns "true",
Suspect the string is too long for the pattern matching.
In this case, using preg_match() returns "true" when putting ".*"
, but adding more "$" or "\z" returns "false" as expected.
mb_ereg() cannot match over 100,000 (100K) characters (not bytes but characters)
whereas preg_match() can over 1,000,000,000 (1G, if it's within "memory_limit").
Try this.
<?php
ini_set("memory_limit", "512M"); // <-- must be changed if you try 1G.
$length = 100000; // <-- 99999 is OK / 100000 is NG
$str = "";
for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++):
$str .= "1"; // <-- same result if it is a multibyte character.
endfor;
if (mb_ereg('.*', $str)):
echo '<br><span style="background-color:lightgreen">OK!</span><br>memory_limit = '.ini_get("memory_limit").'<br>$length = '.$length;
else:
echo '<br><span style="background-color:orange">NG!</span><br>memory_limit = '.ini_get("memory_limit").'<br>$length = '.$length;
endif;
?>