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preg_grep

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preg_grepパターンにマッチする配列の要素を返す

説明

preg_grep(string $pattern, array $array, int $flags = 0): array|false

array 配列の要素のうち、 指定した pattern にマッチするものを要素とする配列を返します。

パラメータ

pattern

検索するパターンを表す文字列。

array

入力の配列。

flags

PREG_GREP_INVERT を設定すると、この関数は 与えた pattern にマッチ しない 要素を返します。

戻り値

array 配列のキーを使用した配列を返します。 失敗した場合に false を返します

エラー / 例外

渡された正規表現のパターンがコンパイルできない場合、E_WARNING が発生します。

例1 preg_grep() の例

<?php
// すべての浮動小数点数を含む配列要素を返す
$fl_array = preg_grep("/^(\d+)?\.\d+$/", $array);
?>

参考

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Daniel Klein
11 years ago
A shorter way to run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:

<?php
function preg_grep_keys($pattern, $input, $flags = 0) {
return
array_intersect_key($input, array_flip(preg_grep($pattern, array_keys($input), $flags)));
}
?>
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keithbluhm at gmail dot com
14 years ago
Run a match on the array's keys rather than the values:

<?php

function preg_grep_keys( $pattern, $input, $flags = 0 )
{
$keys = preg_grep( $pattern, array_keys( $input ), $flags );
$vals = array();
foreach (
$keys as $key )
{
$vals[$key] = $input[$key];
}
return
$vals;
}

?>
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amolocaleb at gmail dot com
6 years ago
This may be obvious to most experienced developers,but just in case its not,when using preg_grep to check for whitelisted items ,one must be very careful to explicitly define the regex boundaries or it will fail
<?php
$whitelist
= ["home","dashboard","profile","group"];
$possibleUserInputs = ["homd","hom","ashboard","settings","group"];
foreach(
$possibleUserInputs as $input)
{
if(
preg_grep("/$input/i",$whitelist)
{
echo
$input." whitelisted";
}else{
echo
$input." flawed";
}

}
?>
This results in:

homd flawed
hom whitelisted
ashboard whitelisted
settings flawed
group whitelisted

I think this is because if boundaries are not explicitly defined,preg_grep looks for any instance of the substring in the whole array and returns true if found.This is not what we want,so boundaries must be defined.

<?php
foreach($possibleUserInputs as $input)
{
if(
preg_grep("/^$input$/i",$whitelist)
{
echo
$input." whitelisted";
}else{
echo
$input." flawed";
}

}
?>
this results in:
homd flawed
hom flawed
ashboard flawed
settings flawed
group whitelisted
in_array() will also give the latter results but will require few tweaks if say,the search is to be case insensitive,which is always the case 70% of the time
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