[php-src] Issue #15377: preg_match_callback()

From: Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:36:58 +0000
Subject: [php-src] Issue #15377: preg_match_callback()
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Issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15377 Author: nevez ### Description I think it would be helpful when extracting sections or generally processing very large strings to have a preg_match_callback() function. Currently I use preg_replace_callback(), discarding the return value, but this approach probably has a non-trivial overhead due to string copying and concatenation. It also feels a bit "hacky". ``` preg_replace_callback($regex, function ($matches) use (&$selected) { $selected .= $matches[1]; return ''; }, $block); ``` An hypothetical preg_match_callback() could return void or even better the number of matches, as with preg_match_all(): ``` $nSelected = preg_match_callback($regex, function ($matches) use (&$selected) { $selected .= $matches[1]; }, $block); ```

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