ereg_match_all

[MediumDave]

Is there any way of extracting the position of each expression within the text?

I am using ereg_match_all to match an expression in an HTML file, but would like to know the position of each occurence within the file. Is this possible?

Thanks.

[timster]

Maybe overlong, but would this do?

<?php
$text = "Who is it who? Who is it? What is it?";
$word = "it";
$total_length = 0;
preg_match_all("/(.*?)\b($word)\b/s", $text, $my_matches);
foreach ($my_matches[0] as $a_match) {
$length += strlen($a_match);
echo $length - strlen($word) . "<br>\n";
}
?>