Question

Is it possible in PHP Regex to do partial matching so that if I have an array like:

$words = array("john", "steve", "amie", "kristy", "steven");

and I supply “jo” it would return “john” or if “eve” is supplied, it returns “steve”?

Answer 1

$words = array("john","jogi", "steve", "amie", "kristy", "steven");
foreach ($words as $value) {
    if (preg_match("|jo|", $value)) {
        $arr[] = $value;
    }
}
var_dump($arr);

This will return you array with john and jogi