Validate value against a Perl-compatible regular expression in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to validate value against a Perl-compatible regular expression.

Example

/*  ww  w  .  j  a v a2s.c om*/
<?php
    $string = "Match this string";

    var_dump(filter_var($string, FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP,
    array("options"=>array("regexp"=>"/^M(.*)/"))))
?>

The code above generates the following result.