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mb_ereg_search_getpos

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_ereg_search_getpos — Returns start point for next regular expression match

int mb_ereg_search_getpos ( void )

Returns the start point for the next regular expression match.

This function has no parameters.

mb_ereg_search_getpos() returns the point to start regular expression match for mb_ereg_search(), mb_ereg_search_pos(), mb_ereg_search_regs(). The position is represented by bytes from the head of string.

Note: The internal encoding or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding() will be used as the character encoding for this function.