[PHP-DEV] CVS update: php3/doc/functions From: andrey (php-dev <email protected>)
Date: 05/29/99

Date: Saturday May 29, 1999 @ 17:28
Author: andrey

Update of /repository/php3/doc/functions
In directory php:/tmp/cvs-serv19334/doc/functions

Modified Files:
        pcre.sgml
Log Message:
-Updated docs a little bit
-preg_match_all() now returns the number of global matches

Index: php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml
diff -u php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.4 php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.5
--- php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml:1.4 Fri May 28 18:19:19 1999
+++ php3/doc/functions/pcre.sgml Sat May 29 17:28:50 1999
@@ -68,10 +68,9 @@
 
     <para>
      If <parameter>matches</parameter> is provided, then it is filled
- with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the full
- pattern that matched, $matches[1] will have the first captured
- parenthesized subpattern, $matches[2] will have the second
- subpattern, and so on.
+ with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that
+ match the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched
+ the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on.
 
     <para>
      Returns true if a match for <parameter>pattern</parameter> was
@@ -186,8 +185,8 @@
      to be PREG_PATTERN_ORDER.
 
     <para>
- Returns true is any match is found, or false if no match is found
- or an error occurred.
+ Returns the number of full pattern matches, or false if
+ no match is found or an error occurred.
 
      <example>
       <title>Getting all phone numbers out of some text.</title>
@@ -225,8 +224,10 @@
      <literal>\\<replaceable>n</replaceable></literal>. Every such
      reference will be replaced by the text captured by the
      <replaceable>n</replaceable>'th parenthesized pattern. <replaceable>n
- </replaceable>can be from 0 to 99. <literal>\\0</literal> refers to
- the text matched by the whole pattern.
+ </replaceable>can be from 0 to 99, and <literal>\\0</literal> refers to
+ the text matched by the whole pattern. Opening parentheses are
+ counted from left to right (starting from 1) to obtain the number
+ of the capturing subpattern.
 
     <para>
      If no matches are found in <parameter>subject</parameter>, then 

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