RE: [PHP-DEV] regex operators
| From: | David Sklar | Date: | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:02:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] regex operators | ||
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:18 AM, mailto:derick@php.net
wrote:
> Right, and as George's example already works I see no point in adding
> more 'magic' operators that look like Perl to me.
What about a match operator? I realize that similar functionality can be
achieved with preg_match(), but we could duplicate all operators with
functions: if (equals($foo,$bar)) {} instead of if ($foo == bar). Obviously,
testing equality is a frequent enough operation that it would be clumsy to
not have an == operator. In the same vein, matching against a regex seems
like a more frequent operation in web programming than, say bitshifting with
assignment ala the <<= and >>= operators. Which is why I think it could be a
useful addition.
David