Re: which regexp require preg_grep() and which can be used with ereg()?
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Sat, 06 Oct 2001 09:50:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: which regexp require preg_grep() and which can be used with ereg()? | ||
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On Saturday 06 October 2001 00:17, John A. Grant wrote:
> In Perl I used "/\S/" to check for blank lines read from a file.
> Now I'm learning PHP. How do I know what is a 'standard'
> regexp that ereg() can handle and how do I know what is
> Perl-specific syntax so that I must use preg_grep() instead?
If you're familiar with Perl syntax simply use always the preg functions.
They're even a bit faster than ereg* :)
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