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mb_regex_set_options> <mb_preferred_mime_name
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mb_regex_encoding

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_regex_encodingReturns current encoding for multibyte regex as string

Description

mixed mb_regex_encoding ([ string $encoding ] )

Returns the current encoding for a multibyte regex as a string.

Parameters

encoding

The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

Returns the character encoding used by multibyte regex functions.

See Also



mb_regex_set_options> <mb_preferred_mime_name
Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009
 
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mb_regex_encoding
Anonymous
28-Jun-2009 05:07
To change algo the regex_encodign
<?php
echo "current mb_internal_encoding: ".mb_internal_encoding()."<br />";
echo
"changing mb_internal_encoding to UTF-8<br />";
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
echo
"new mb_internal_encoding: ".mb_internal_encoding()."<br />";

echo
"current mb_regex_encoding: ".mb_regex_encoding()."<br />";
echo
"changing mb_regex_encoding to UTF-8<br />";
mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');
echo
"new mb_regex_encoding: ".mb_regex_encoding()."<br />";
?>
zl at zl dot hu
29-May-2009 01:05
Return values vary in setting and getting:

<?php
 
echo mb_regex_encoding();
 
// returns encoding name as a string
?>

<?php
 
echo mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8");
 
// returns true (success) of false as a boolean
?>
/me
02-Feb-2008 02:30
Note, that the regex encoding is only set to the initial internal character encoding. If you change the internal encoding in your script with mb_internal_encoding() the regex encoding does not change. For example:

<?php
echo "current mb_internal_encoding: ".mb_internal_encoding()."<br />";
echo
"current mb_regex_encoding: ".mb_regex_encoding()."<br />";
echo
"changing mb_internal_encoding to UTF-8<br />";
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
echo
"new mb_internal_encoding: ".mb_internal_encoding()."<br />";
echo
"new mb_regex_encoding: ".mb_regex_encoding()."<br />";
?>

This code might output (depending on your initial internal character encoding):

current mb_internal_encoding: ISO-8859-1
current mb_regex_encoding: ISO-8859-1
changing mb_internal_encoding to UTF-8
new mb_internal_encoding: UTF-8
new mb_regex_encoding: ISO-8859-1

Furthermore the sentence "The default value is the internal character encoding." in the documentation might be misleading because the initial default value of the regex encoding is meant, and not the default value for the optional encoding parameter.

mb_regex_set_options> <mb_preferred_mime_name
Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009
 
 
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