PHP also supports regular expressions using a Perl-compatible syntax using the PCRE functions. Those functions support non-greedy matching, assertions, conditional subpatterns, and a number of other features not supported by the POSIX-extended regular expression syntax.
These regular expression functions are not binary-safe. The PCRE functions are.
Regular expressions are used for complex string manipulation. PHP uses the POSIX extended regular expressions as defined by POSIX 1003.2. For a full description of POSIX regular expressions see the » regex man pages included in the regex directory in the PHP distribution. It's in manpage format, so you'll want to do something along the lines of man /usr/local/src/regex/regex.7 in order to read it.
Nu sunt necesare biblioteci externe pentru a asambla această extensie.
Do not change the TYPE unless you know what you are doing.
To enable regexp support configure PHP --with-regex[=TYPE]. TYPE can be one of system, apache, php. The default is to use php.
Versiunea PHP pentru Windows susţine implicit această extensie. Nu este nevoie să încărcaţi vre-o extensie suplimentară pentru a putea utiliza aceste funcţii.
Această extensie nu are directive de configurare definite în php.ini.
Această extensie nu are tipuri de resurse definite.
Această extensie nu are constante definite.
Example#1 Regular Expression Examples
<?php
// Returns true if "abc" is found anywhere in $string.
ereg("abc", $string);
// Returns true if "abc" is found at the beginning of $string.
ereg("^abc", $string);
// Returns true if "abc" is found at the end of $string.
ereg("abc$", $string);
// Returns true if client browser is Netscape 2, 3 or MSIE 3.
eregi("(ozilla.[23]|MSIE.3)", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
// Places three space separated words into $regs[1], $regs[2] and $regs[3].
ereg("([[:alnum:]]+) ([[:alnum:]]+) ([[:alnum:]]+)", $string, $regs);
// Put a <br /> tag at the beginning of $string.
$string = ereg_replace("^", "<br />", $string);
// Put a <br /> tag at the end of $string.
$string = ereg_replace("$", "<br />", $string);
// Get rid of any newline characters in $string.
$string = ereg_replace("\n", "", $string);
?>
For regular expressions in Perl-compatible syntax have a look at the PCRE functions. The simpler shell style wildcard pattern matching is provided by fnmatch().