Re: removing ereg functions
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Wed, 16 May 2001 16:58:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: removing ereg functions | ||
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> wouldn't it be in at least the best interest to have split and other functions to use preg
> instead of ereg?
> this might add some bloat to code, but it might be an interesting default speedup.
No, because POSIX and Perl-style regular expressions are not compatible.
That's why we have a preg_split() function.
> by all means, keep ereg. unless you can get ereg to act just like preg, you can't get rid
> of it.
And vice versa. The two libs are not compatible.
-Rasmus