PHP RegEx: Match the Beginning of the String

Submitted by ronard on Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 19:28.

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In previous tutorial we match the given string. Now we are going to match at the beginning of the given string.

<?php
// make a string
$string = 'Ronard';
 
echo "<b>String: </b>".$string."<br>";
// match the beginning of the string
if(preg_match("/^Ron/", $string))
{
// if it matches we display this line
echo 'The string begins with Ron';
}
else
{
// if no match is found display this line
echo 'No match found';
}
?>

The regex character to read beginning is the caret (^). Then we see if the string given begin with Ron. The forward slashes (/) we see are the delimeter that hold our regex pattern. And the quotations are used to 'wrap it all'. Then we see the (^) will put as the beggining of the string.

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