Old link to Oniguruma regex syntax is not working anymore, there is a working one:
https://github.com/geoffgarside/oniguruma/blob/master/Syntax.txt
(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)
mb_ereg — Regular expression match with multibyte support
$pattern
, string $string
[, array $regs
] )Executes the regular expression match with multibyte support.
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.
Зауваження:
The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding() will be used as the character encoding for this function.
Old link to Oniguruma regex syntax is not working anymore, there is a working one:
https://github.com/geoffgarside/oniguruma/blob/master/Syntax.txt
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.";
}
?>
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 - .
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()
}
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
)
<?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>';
?>
<?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.
?>
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
)
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
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");
?>