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Detect chinese (multibyte) character in the string

$str = "This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 ";

How do I detect chinese characters from this string and print the part which starts with the first character and ends with "-"? (it would be "中文 characters. Some more characters -").

Thank you!

Solution

  • I've solved this problem using preg_match and regular expressions:

    $str = "This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 ";

preg_match(/[\x{4e00}-\x{9fa5}]+.*\-/u, $str, $matches);