Re: preg_match too greedy

>>>> echo (preg_match($pattern, $test) != false) >> >> The " != false " here is redundant. > > Understood. But what you think is redundancy is, to me, clarity in > programming. I happen to think that boolean tests shouldn't ride on > whether or not an array returned from a function is empty or not (or a > freaking boolean). If what I'm looking for is a "false" then that's what > I'll test for. Fair enough, but in that case I think you want "!== false". The expression you have -- "($x != false)" -- will be true whether $x is 0, NULL, an empty string, an empty array, or actually FALSE. But "$x !== false" will only be true in the last case. Ben