Re: preg_match
| From: | Edin Kadibašić | Date: | Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:16:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_match | ||
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Richard Lynch wrote:
> But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!!
>
> PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it.
>
> That's why \ is an escape character in PHP.
>
> It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE.
>
> Some days I think PHP's escape character should have been | or
> something, just so this topic wouldn't come up every damn month.
All true, except you would then end up having problems with regexs like
(this|or|that) :)
Edin