Re: Is there a faster way to escape special characters in a regex?

Yes they are identical. The rule is that the first and the last(excluding modificators) symbol must be identical so |abc| ~abc~ /abc/ %abc%(not sure for that) are equivalent. The docs uses // syntax because it is the most popular. Regards, Andrey Hristov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Davey" <rich@fatal-design.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Is there a faster way to escape special characters in a regex? > "Andrey Hristov" <ahristov@icygen.com> wrote in message > news:053801c1c9d0$5b4da400$0b01a8c0@ANDreY... > > > In PHP 4.0.5 and later, every parameter to str_replace() can be an > array.If search and > > Thank you for pointing that out :) > > I've now changed my code from the (rather lengthy) version to the following > which worked perfectly for me: > > $regcheck = > array("/","\\","^",".","[","]","$","(",")","*","?","{","}"); > $regreplace = > > array("","","\^","\.","\[","\]","\$","\(","\)","\*","\?","\{","\}"); > $badwordtest = "/" . str_replace($regcheck,$regreplace,$badwords[$i]) . > "/i"; > > > BTW /abc/ and ~abc~ are equivalent regexes. So get a character which will > not occur in the string and put in the front and the end. > > Does this mean that ~myword~ and /myword/ are identical? > I only used /myword/ because it's in the php manual example like that. > > Cheers, > > Rich > -- > Fatal Design > http://www.fatal-design.com > Atari / DarkBASIC / Coding / Since 1995 > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >