RegexIterator::accept

Description

Matches (string) RegexIterator::current (or RegexIterator::key if the RegexIterator::USE_KEY flag is set) against the regular expression.

Parameters Parameters

Return Values

true if a match, false otherwise.

Examples

RegexIterator::accept example

This example shows that only items matching the regular expression are accepted.

<?php
$names = new ArrayIterator(array('Ann', 'Bob', 'Charlie', 'David'));
$filter = new RegexIterator($names, '/^[B-D]/');
foreach ($filter as $name) {
    echo $name . PHP_EOL;
}
?>

The above example will output:

Bob
Charlie
David

See Also

• RegexIterator constants
• RegexIterator::setFlags