Re: preg_quote: possible arg addition for regex delimiter escaping

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Chuck Adams wrote: > > I'm not sure what an extra flag nets you other than eating up an arg > slot (since PHP has no named args). It may be additive, but if > another option gets added, would it be another flag? If it's more > than a flag's worth of option, is someone going to have to do > something like: > > preg_match("/$regex/", $teststr, PREG_QUOTEDELIM, $blah); ?? > > When the value of that flag wasn't necessary before? > This is exactly what preg_quote was designed for, not extra args. I > personally find using another function to be the most orthogonal and > therefore most elegant solution. > > ... Not that I'd mind seeing named args in PHP though ;) We are talking about adding extra arg to preg_quote(), which would specify an additional character to be quoted - usually, it would be the delimiter. We're not changing preg_match(). -Andrei Documentation is worth it just to be able to answer all your mail with 'RTFM'. -- Alan Cox