The preg_match_all function is used to perform a global regular expression match.
preg_match_all() syntax
int preg_match_all ( string $pattern , string $subject [, array &$matches [, int $flags = PREG_PATTERN_ORDER [, int $offset = 0 ]]] )Search subject for all matching results of the given regular expression pattern and output them to matches in the order specified by flag.
After the first match is found, the subsequence search continues from the last matching position.
preg_match_all() parameter description
$pattern: 要搜索的模式，字符串形式。
$subject: 输入字符串。
$matches: 多维数组，作为输出参数输出所有匹配结果, 数组排序通过flags指定。
$flags：可以结合下面标记使用(注意不能同时使用PREG_PATTERN_ORDER和 PREG_SET_ORDER)：
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER: 结果排序为$matches[0]保存完整模式的所有匹配, $matches[1] 保存第一个子组的所有匹配，以此类推。
PREG_SET_ORDER: 结果排序为$matches[0]包含第一次匹配得到的所有匹配(包含子组)， $matches[1]是包含第二次匹配到的所有匹配(包含子组)的数组，以此类推。
PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE: 如果这个标记被传递，每个发现的匹配返回时会增加它相对目标字符串的偏移量。
offset: 通常， 查找时从目标字符串的开始位置开始。可选参数offset用于 从目标字符串中指定位置开始搜索(单位是字节)。preg_match_all() return value
Returns the complete number of matches (possibly 0), or FALSE if an error occurs.
preg_match_all() Example
Find matches 与 Tag content:
<?php
$userinfo = "Name: <b>PHP</b> <br> Title: <b>Programming Language</b>";
preg_match_all ("/<b>(.*)<\/b>/U", $userinfo, $pat_array);
print_r($pat_array[0]);
?>The execution result is as follows:
Array
(
[0] => <b>PHP</b>
[1] => <b>Programming Language</b>
)Find matching HTML tags (greedy):
<?php
//\\2是一个后向引用的示例. 这会告诉pcre它必须匹配正则表达式中第二个圆括号(这里是([\w]+))
//匹配到的结果. 这里使用两个反斜线是因为这里使用了双引号.
$html = "<b>bold text</b><a href=howdy.html>click me</a>";
preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/\\2>)/", $html, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach ($matches as $val) {
echo "matched: " . $val[0] . "\n";
echo "part 1: " . $val[1] . "\n";
echo "part 2: " . $val[2] . "\n";
echo "part 3: " . $val[3] . "\n";
echo "part 4: " . $val[4] . "\n\n";
}
?>The execution result is as follows:
matched: <b>bold text</b>
part 1: <b>
part 2: b
part 3: bold text
part 4: </b>
matched: <a href=howdy.html>click me</a>
part 1: <a href=howdy.html>
part 2: a
part 3: click me
part 4: </a>
