Regex Libraries
| From: | Ilia A. | Date: | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:30:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Regex Libraries | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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Currently PHP contains two bundled regular expression libraries, PECL and
regex. I am wondering if it would be a good idea to drop the old regex (dates
back to 1999) library and use only PECL. The advantage is performance,
cleaner code and a more flexible and more recent library. For the people who
still use ereg functions, we could create wrappers that would implement their
functionality using PECL and possibly add an E_NOTICE indicating that using
PECL function preg_* would be a better approach.
Ilia