# mb_ereg_search_getpos

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

mb_ereg_search_getpos — Returns start point for next regular expression match

### Description

int mb_ereg_search_getpos ( void )

mb_ereg_search_getpos() returns the point to start regular expression match for mb_ereg_search(), mb_ereg_search_pos(), mb_ereg_search_regs(). The position is represented by bytes from the head of string.

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_setpos().