Re: Why is ereg being deprecated?

2009.10.12 20:55 Carl P. Corliss rašė: > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > [snip] > >> On 12.10.2009, at 18:57, Mark Krenz wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:27:02PM GMT, Pierre Joye >>> [pierre.php@gmail.com] said the following: > [snip] > >>> But I'm willing to bet that the majority of people are using ereg, not >>> PCRE. I've known about PCRE in PHP for a while now, but I continue to >>> use ereg because I thought it had better support in PHP and that it was >>> the more "official" function. Guess I was wrong. I'm sure I'm not >>> the >>> only one who thought this. >> >> Maybe try to substantiate that argument with a google code search or >> something. Personally I have seen quite the opposite, then again I have >> been actively encouraging people to use preg since about 5 or more years >> now. > > Code Search of: "eregi?(_replace)?\( lang:php" shows ~123,000 results > Code Search of: > "preg_(filter|grep|last_error|match_all|match|quote|replace_callback|replace|split)\( > lang:php" shows ~374,000 results > > Looks like preg_* functions are used more often than ereg* functions to > me... preg_quote() and preg_last_error() are support functions. They are used together with other pcre functions. You double some search results. If you have to support something, it is not about statistics. Even 1% is important. Before you use statistics against something, remember that statistics can be used against you too. Everyone of us is one in seven billion. Any person is just 0,000000014% in Earth statistics. -- Tomas