# mb_ereg_search_init

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_ereg_search_init — Setup string and regular expression for multibyte regularexpression match

### Description

bool mb_ereg_search_init ( string `$string` [, string `$pattern` [, string `$option` ]] )

mb_ereg_search_init() sets `string` and `pattern` for multibyte regular expression. These values are used for mb_ereg_search(), mb_ereg_search_pos(), mb_ereg_search_regs(). It returns `TRUE` for success, `FALSE` for error.

The internal encoding or the character encoding specified in mb_regex_encoding() will be used as character encoding.

See also: mb_regex_encoding(), mb_ereg_search_regs().