Re: regex operators

From:	George Schlossnagle	Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:58:03 +0000
Subject:	Re: regex operators
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

For example, what would =~ do when you build PHP without PCRE support? Would it simply not work? Would it fall back to Posix-style regex? Why should PCRE-regex get an operator and Posix-style shouldn't? So we need two different types of regex operators?

Now _that's_ the best idea so far! I actually propose a set of operators

=~    PCRE
=-)    POSIX  (happy, because there on every system)
={   strstr   (evil, because it's confusing - which is needle, which is haystack?)