CVS update: php3/doc/functions

Date: Saturday May 29, 1999 @ 17:28 Author: andrey Update of /repository/php3/doc/functions In directory php:/tmp/cvs-serv19334/doc/functions Modified Files: pcre.sgml Log Message: -Updated docs a little bit -preg_match_all() now returns the number of global matches Index: php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml diff -u php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.4 php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.5 --- php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.4 Fri May 28 18:19:19 1999 +++ php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml Sat May 29 17:28:50 1999 @@ -68,10 +68,9 @@ <para> If <parameter>matches</parameter> is provided, then it is filled - with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the full - pattern that matched, $matches[1] will have the first captured - parenthesized subpattern, $matches[2] will have the second - subpattern, and so on. + with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that + match the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched + the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on. <para> Returns true if a match for <parameter>pattern</parameter> was @@ -186,8 +185,8 @@ to be PREG_PATTERN_ORDER. <para> - Returns true is any match is found, or false if no match is found - or an error occurred. + Returns the number of full pattern matches, or false if + no match is found or an error occurred. <example> <title>Getting all phone numbers out of some text.</title> @@ -225,8 +224,10 @@ <literal>\\<replaceable>n</replaceable></literal>. Every such reference will be replaced by the text captured by the <replaceable>n</replaceable>'th parenthesized pattern. <replaceable>n - </replaceable>can be from 0 to 99. <literal>\\0</literal> refers to - the text matched by the whole pattern. + </replaceable>can be from 0 to 99, and <literal>\\0</literal> refers to + the text matched by the whole pattern. Opening parentheses are + counted from left to right (starting from 1) to obtain the number + of the capturing subpattern. <para> If no matches are found in <parameter>subject</parameter>, then -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net