Re: Why is ereg being deprecated?
| From: | Carl P. Corliss | Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:54:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why is ereg being deprecated? | ||
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Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
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Actually, searching for those by themselves shows only about 24K worth of results - a far cry from doubling anything. Even adding /spliti?/ for ereg results only increases it to around ~170K 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.Sure, it's not empirical data, however it's certainly useful as a means for gauging (albeit roughly) the use of ereg* functions. Regardless, we could really argue statistics all day if we wanted but, that would be beside the point - which is that ereg* functions are, like it or not, deprecated. Not that I mind given the fact that the preg* functions are typically faster anyway. -- Carl