php - Detect chinese (multibyte) character in the string

Question

$str = "This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 ";

How do I detect chinese characters from this string and print the part which starts with the first character and ends with "-"? (it would be "中文 characters. Some more characters -").

Thank you!

Answer 1

I've solved this problem using preg_match and regular expressions:

$str = "This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 ";

preg_match(/[x{4e00}-x{9fa5}]+.*-/u, $str, $matches);