How to tell if a string contains characters in Hebrew using PHP?

Question

Trying to figure out how to tell whether a string contains any characters in Hebrew with no luck.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

The simplest approach would be:

preg_match('/[א-ת]/',$string)

For example,

$strings = array( "abbb","1234","aabbאאבב","אבבבב");

foreach($strings as $string)
{
    echo "'$string'  ";

    echo (preg_match('/[א-ת]/',$string))? "has Hebrew characters in it." : "is not Hebrew";

    echo "
";
}