Php/docs/regexiterator.accept
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RegexIterator::accept
(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7)
RegexIterator::accept — Get accept status
Description
public RegexIterator::accept ( ) : bool
Matches (string)
RegexIterator::current()
(or RegexIterator::key() if the
RegexIterator::USE_KEY flag is set)
against the regular expression.
Parameters
This function has no parameters.
Return Values
TRUE
if a match, FALSE
otherwise.
Examples
Example #1 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