Re: pcre (Perl C regular expression) module for php3

Michael Barnes wrote: > Hi all, I'm new to php3 and this list, and I have been quite impressed > with php3 with 1 exception, regular expressions. > > I have been writing a php3 frontend for the pcre library by Philip Hazel. > Has anyone else done this? Is this of interest to someone besides me? > > So far I have 2 public functions written preg and preg_op. preg is the > same as ereg except it uses Perl style pattern matching, and preg_op is > like eregi except it can be passed a string of options for caseless > matching (/i option in Perl), extended matching (/x option in Perl), > multiline matching (/m option in Perl). > > > Feedback and Testers are welcome. I'd better explain what I'm doing with PCRE. I am building a PCRE module for PCRE that will allow people to use Perl-style expressions with any options supported by the library and also a /g for global matching. I was afraid this was going to happen, that is, someone else would start writing one before I'm done. Same thing happened with WDDX module... -Andrey * Only 19,999 lines of C++ to my next ski trip... * -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net