Re: ereg deprecation?
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Mon, 31 May 2010 17:23:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ereg deprecation? | ||
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On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 14:09 -0300, Felipe Pena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/4/28 Michael Maclean <michael@no-surprises.co.uk>
>
> > Hi,
> > I think I asked this before on IRC, but I've forgotten the answer. I was
> > just remembering that the ereg extension was due to be deprecated in PHP6 -
> > does this still apply to trunk?
> >
> >
> I think make no sense to keep it deprecated.
>
> Here's a patch for undeprecate ext/ereg in 5_3 and trunk:
> http://felipe.ath.cx/diff/undeprecate-ereg.diff
>
> Any objection? If no, I'll commit it in soon.
I still won't recommend using ereg - the missing binary-safety causes
quite some broken checks ... is there anything that can be done which
can't be done using pcre? If not: Less code to maintain -> less
trouble :-)
johanns