Re: Why is ereg being deprecated?
| From: | Guilherme Blanco | Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:51:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why is ereg being deprecated? | ||
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It was fat, slow and everything that you can do with POSIX regex you
can easily do with PCRE regex, which is faster.
It is a decision forever. Do not expect it to come on PHP 5.4 (?) or PHP 6.
Cheers,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Mark Krenz <mark@suso.org> wrote:
>
> I just found this out a couple days ago when I checked the ereg manual
> page for something and was shocked. I searched around a bit but
> couldn't find a straight answer on why this function is being removed?
> Did the deprecation notice just get made in 5.3 or has it been there
> longer than that?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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