Re: regular expressions php/perl/actionscript
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:42:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: regular expressions php/perl/actionscript | ||
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From: "Gabino Travassos" <mote@moteinteractive.com>
> I'm wondering if Regular Expressions are the same in Perl and PHP (and
> possibly Actionscript)? They look the same and smell the same, but if I
see
> a book in a store for Perl Regular Expressions that's $10 cheaper than the
> PHP one (is there one?), then is it the same thing?
The regular expressions used in the preg_* functions "closely resembles
Perl". The basic syntax is the same. The regular expressions used in the
ereg_* functions are POSIX-Extended.
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
(Perl-compatible)
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php
(POSIX Extended)
---John Holmes...