Re: Regex Libraries

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:30:53AM -0400, Ilia A. wrote: > 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. $mail = str_replace("PECL", "PCRE", $mail); > Ilia Jan -- http://jan.kneschke.de - localizer, modlogan, pxtools mailto:jan@kneschke.de - Jan Kneschke