Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: preg_match() returns false but no documentation why
| From: | Stut | Date: | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:31:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: preg_match() returns false but no documentation why | ||
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Richard Lynch wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2007 7:26 am, Jared Farrish wrote:No. @Americans: What did the letters s and u ever do to you? -Stut@Brits: So is a comma or semi-colon called a Half Stop :-)That's what the 'period' is called in British English. http://google.ca/search?q=define%3Afull+stop In English syntax "period" and "full stop" are synonymous, and the RegEx manual is throwing "dot" into the same bag.That's very confusing to call it 'Full Stop' when it doesn't seem to actually correlate to the regex meaning it identifies, don't you think? Maybe to a Brit or someone who understands Commonwealth English would know (I was aware of what it meant in CE, I just woudn't have imagined to apply it here, since it looks to be descriptive). Kind've like an elephant trainer calling her elephant's trunk a boot.