RegexIterator::accept

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

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

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