#32470 [NoF->Csd]: preg_compile() Need way to pre-compile regex

ID: 32470 User updated by: sam_bravard at yahoo dot com Reported By: sam_bravard at yahoo dot com -Status: No Feedback +Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: all PHP Version: 5.0.3 New Comment: Terrific! That's a fine solution. I assumed the worst from the PHP docs. Coming from C#/Java mentality it's assumed you have to explicity compile for performance. Perhaps someone on the doc team could add a short note mentioning the regex cache for those of us with blinders on ;-) Thanks! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-05 01:00:05] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-03-28 10:09:53] tony2001@php.net All pcre_* funcs do not compile expressions each time, they use cache of precompiled regexps. See pcre_get_compiled_regex_ex() in ext/pcre/php_pcre.c Or you're proposing something different? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-03-28 10:04:13] sam_bravard at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ PHP is missing the ability to pre-compile regex expressions and then use the pre-compiled regex. This is a _major_ performance issue (100x) when processing files or text streams with regex's. In PHP you have to recompile the regex for each line you process... a major waste of cpu time. See Perl, .NET or Java's regex support for an example of how to use precompiled regex's. Perhaps PHP can add something like the following and just overload the first argument to preg_match and friends: $precompiled_expression = preg_compile("regex expression"); preg_match($precompiled_expression, $sourcedata, $matches); Reproduce code: --------------- $precompiled_expression = preg_compile("regex expression"); preg_match($precompiled_expression, $sourcedata, $matches); Actual result: -------------- Function doesn't exist... sorely needed for performance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32470&edit=1