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<refentry xml:id="function.mb-ereg-search-pos" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>mb_ereg_search_pos</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
   
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>array</type><methodname>mb_ereg_search_pos</methodname>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>pattern</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>option</parameter><initializer>"ms"</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression 
   for a predefined multibyte string
  </para>
  <para>
   The string for match is specified by
   <function>mb_ereg_search_init</function>. If it is not specified,
   the previous one will be used.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>pattern</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The search pattern.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>option</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The search option.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <simpara>
   An <type>array</type> including
   the position of a matched part for a multibyte regular expression.
   The first element of the array will be the beginning of matched
   part, the second element will be length (bytes) of matched part.
   It returns &false; on error.
  </simpara>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="notes">
  &reftitle.notes;
  
  &note.mbstring.encoding.internal;
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>mb_regex_encoding</function></member>
    <member><function>mb_ereg_search_init</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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