Zend 200-710 Exam - Topic 8 Question 9 Discussion

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Question #: 9
Topic #: 8

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How many elements does the $matches array contain after the following function call is performed?

preg_match('/^(\d{1,2}([a-z]+))(?:\s*)\S+ (?=201[0-9])/', '21st March 2014', $matches);

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by Golda at May 07, 2022, 10:27 AM

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Leanora

6 months ago

Definitely 2, the regex captures two groups!

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Alesia

6 months ago

I’m not so sure about that, could be 1 too.

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Timmy

7 months ago

Wait, really? I thought it might be 3.

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Ryan

7 months ago

Totally agree, it's 2!

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Lizbeth

7 months ago

The $matches array will have 2 elements.

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Shenika

7 months ago

I recall that the first capturing group counts as one, and if there's a second one, that might make it 2. But what about the full match?

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Francine

7 months ago

I feel like it could be 3 because of the way the regex is structured, but I could be mixing it up with another example.

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Hillary

7 months ago

I'm not entirely sure, but I remember a similar question where the number of matches was based on the capturing groups.

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Tomoko

7 months ago

I think the regex captures two groups, so maybe the $matches array has 2 elements?

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Selma

7 months ago

I'm a bit confused by this question. I'm not sure which method would be the best approach.

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Yasuko

7 months ago

I'm pretty confident the JeOS toolkit has a command line utility, but I'm not sure about the other two. I'll have to guess on those and hope I get at least one right.

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