preg_match

(PHP 3>= 3.0.9, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

preg_match -- Perform a regular expression match

Description

int preg_match ( string pattern, string subject [, array matches])

Searches subject for a match to the regular expression given in pattern.

If matches is provided, then it is filled with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that matched the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on.

Returns TRUE if a match for pattern was found in the subject string, or FALSE if not match was found or an error occurred.

See also preg_match_all(), preg_replace(), and preg_split().