why preg_match_all does not return the number of matches

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

My regex looks like

X[^x{4e00}-x{9fa5}]*Y

(where X and Y are two Chinese characters)

and my expression looks like

preg_match_all("/".$regex."/iu", $content, $out, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER)

it turns out that preg_match_all is always returning 1, even though count($out[0]) is > 1 (and correctly so). So I ended up using count($out[0]) rather than the value this function returns. Though this solves the current issue I need, I am very curious why this is happening. Am I misunderstanding preg_match_all?

I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can point me to the explanation of this problem. Thanks in advance!

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

help with multi-update
Now sure how to ask this really....
10g database if that matters.

I have a customer

PHP time (deadline within one week)
I have a column ['projdue'], which stores the deadline for a project.
I have PHP code and <

Strange php code found on my website
I got hacked and the following code was placed within my files:

Code: [Select]<?
/*

need help in update query
hi
i have a dynamic form. i need help in how can i use update query when values from dynamic for

Getting Resource id #11 while trying to connect..
So i tried using "DEFINE" for the first time and im using the variables i defined to conne

PHP search multiple input field box help
I am having a problem with my search script. At current it will simply search by a selected date whi

Echoing ASCII code
I have a php page that splits a string into chars and then echoes the ASCII code for each char. I'm

Points for Wiki contribution
Hi everyone,

I want to know how long does it take for the moderator to award points for a

Any meaningful project for a new C++ programmer?
I want to do some meaningful program, so I can help myself to learn

Assume I know the fol

Curly Bracket Delimeters.
I'd always believed that the starting and ending delimeters in preg_ functions had to be the same ch