Re: Why is ereg being deprecated?

The real answer is that there is no Unicode support in the ereg functions, and like it or not, the world is going Unicode. -Rasmus Guilherme Blanco wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Mark S. Krenz >> IT Director >> Suso Technology Services, Inc. >> http://suso.org/ >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > >