Regular expression match for multibyte string

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# mb_ereg_match

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_ereg_match — Regular expression match for multibyte string

### Description

bool mb_ereg_match ( string `$pattern` , string `$string` [, string `$option` = "msr" ] )

A regular expression match for a multibyte string

### Parameters

`pattern`

  The regular expression pattern.

`string`

  The string being evaluated.

`option`

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` if `string` matches the regular expression `pattern`, `FALSE` if not.

### 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_ereg() - Regular expression match with multibyte support

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