Re: Regex Libraries

From: Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:41:01 +0000
Subject: Re: Regex Libraries
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s/PECL/PCRE/ applies for all undefined references to PECL :-) Derick On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, 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. > > > Ilia > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions --------------[ if you hold a unix shell to your ear, do you hear the c? ]-

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