Re: Sanitizing Numbers

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 19:09 +0000, Richard Heyes wrote: > > ereg > > [Gasps and runs off shouting "PCRE"] ... You know... Until somewhat recently I preferred POSIX over PCRE... rationale being it's "POSIX" that's a standard!!! But recently I came across some legacy code in a site I maintain that was using ereg(). It just so happened I was tracking down another bug and so I was doing some timestamp squeezing to find the problem when I discovered a horrible horrible thing... a few preg() calls with capturing were resposible for 50% of the page load time. I changed them to preg_match() and I cut the page time in half since the preg_match() time was negligible. I now much prefer to use preg_xxx() functions since I have concrete evidence of their superiority. Cheers, Rob. Ps. The docs always said that ereg() was a bit slower... they didn't say it was severely debilitating. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP