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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:11:38 +0500
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To: Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] preg_match
From: confik@gmail.com (Alexey Shein)

2011/7/8 Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br>:
> Still, this is preg_match it only returns one match, why should i get
> a array and have to use ugly things like $matches[0] afterwards?
> It just makes for very ugly syntax and extra code, a simple function
> would make this cleaner and more intuitive, first time using
> preg_match is a nightmare.
>

You forget about subpatterns, so array can contain more than 1 value:
php > preg_match('/p(hp)/', 'php', $matches); var_dump($matches);
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "php"
  [1]=>
  string(2) "hp"
}


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