Explain preg_Match and preg_replace?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

These are the commonly used regular expressions in PHP. These are an inbuilt function that is used to work with other regular functions.

preg-Match: This is the function used to match a pattern in a defined string. If the patterns match with string, it returns true otherwise it returns false.

Preg_replace: This function is used to perform a replace operation. In this, it first matches the pattern in the string and if pattern matched, ten replace that match with the specified pattern.

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