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Is any way to identify something like this in a text: أنطونيو أسيفيدو?

Eduardo Carrasco · Answer

Hi Eduardo Carrasco , 
 Although this question isn't really related to sugar more like a Programming question I found it interesting. (coz I personally never thought of this) 
 I'm not sure what is your intention here but I've tested some stuff that probably can give you idea to wrap a function using combination of it. <?php
$is_arabic = preg_match('/\p{Arabic}/u', " sadfdasf أنطونيو أسيفيدو");
echo "is_arabic: ".var_export($is_arabic, true);
echo PHP_EOL;
$is_not_arabic = preg_match('/\p{Arabic}/u', "sadfdasf");
echo "is_not_arabic: ".var_export($is_not_arabic, true);
echo PHP_EOL;
$is_numeric_arabic = preg_match('/^\p{N}+$/u', "١٢٣٤٥" /*Arabic numerals for "12345"*/);
echo "is_numeric_arabic: ".var_export($is_numeric_arabic, true);
echo PHP_EOL;
$is_not_numeric_arabic = preg_match('/^\p{N}+$/u', "أنطونيو أسيفيدو");
echo "is_not_numeric_arabic: ".var_export($is_not_numeric_arabic, true); You can see the results of it here: https://3v4l.org/rrbML Hope this helps. Tevfik T&uuml;mer Sr. Developer Support Engineer