Hazaar MVC

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Perform a regular expression match on a string using multiple possible regular expressions.

public  preg_match_array({Array})

This is the same as calling preg_match() except that $patterns is an array of regular expressions. Execution returns on the first match.

Parameter	Type	Description
`$patterns`	`string`	an array of patterns to search for, as a string
`$subject`	`string`	the input string
`$matches`	`array`	If matches is provided, then it is filled with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that matched the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on.
`$flags`	`mixed`	For details on available flags, see the preg_match() documentation.
`$offset`	`int`	Normally, the search starts from the beginning of the subject string. The optional parameter offset can be used to specify the alternate place from which to start the search (in bytes).