Re: Please document eregi {0, 255} limit
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:52:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Please document eregi {0, 255} limit | ||
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jakub Vrana wrote:
> CJ Greiner wrote:
> > It seems that while the ereg functions will search for matches in (any?)
> > length code, the length limiter {0, 255} is limited to 255.
>
> > Please add it to all applicable regular expression match items that it
> > applies to.
>
> It is written in manual entry regex.7 which is recommended to read in
> Regex Introduction: "A bound is `{' followed by an unsigned decimal
> integer, possibly followed by `,' possibly followed by another unsigned
> decimal integer, always followed by `}'. The integers must lie between 0
> and RE_DUP_MAX (255(!)) inclusive".
>
> As there is no documentation of regular expressions syntax in PHP
> manual, there shouldn't be any note about this too IMHO.
I agree with that.
regards,
Derick