Re: regular expressions php/perl/actionscript

* Thus wrote Gabino Travassos (mote@moteinteractive.com): > Hello > > 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? PHP's PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). http://php.net/pcre Some of the documentation there can get a little bit like reading a complex regular expression. A good book might help: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/index.html Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."