From 74466adb744db043d7c216c066431fa65c858397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Monte Ohrt <mohrt@php.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:09:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added example to preg_match_all()

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@28669 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 functions/pcre.xml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/functions/pcre.xml b/functions/pcre.xml
index 7805cc1477..3be3bc7293 100644
--- a/functions/pcre.xml
+++ b/functions/pcre.xml
@@ -225,6 +225,35 @@ preg_match_all ("/\(?  (\d{3})?  \)?  (?(1)  [\-\s] ) \d{3}-\d{4}/x",
       </programlisting>
      </example>
     </para>
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title>Find matching HTML tags (greedy)</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+$html = "&lt;b&gt;bold text&lt;b&gt;lt;a href=howdy.html&gt;click me&lt;a&gt;
+
+preg_match_all("/(&lt;w]+)[^&gt;lt;2&gt; $html, $matches);
+
+for($i=0; $i&lt; count($matches[0]); $i++) {
+echo "matched: ".$matches[0][$i]."\n";
+echo "part 1: ".$matches[1][$i]."\n";
+echo "part 2: ".$matches[3][$i]."\n";
+echo "part 3: ".$matches[4][$i]."\n\n";
+}
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+     This example will produce:
+     <programlisting>
+matched: &lt;b&gt;bold text&lt;b&gt;
+part 1: &lt;b&gt;
+part 2: bold text
+part 3: &lt;b&gt;
+
+matched: &lt;a href=howdy.html&gt;click me&lt;a&gt;
+part 1: &lt;a href=howdy.html&gt;
+part 2: click me
+part 3: &lt;a&gt;
+     </programlisting>
+    </para>
     <simpara>
      See also <function>preg_match</function>,
      <function>preg_replace</function>,