Re: preg_match

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 July 2011 16:31, Mike Robinson <mike@rile.ca> wrote: >> On July-08-11 10:01 AM Rafael Dohms wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> first time using preg_match is a nightmare. >> >> IMHO, preg_match is poetry in motion. >> >> Going through a million lines of code replacing ereg[i] with preg_match >> because it was deprecated in 5.3 - *that* is a nightmare. >> >> Best Regards >> >> Mike Robinson >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > Could've used preg_replace_all() ? Maybe? You _are_ a programmer, right? > that heading into the wrong direction. to reply to the original thread: I also had some use cases, when returning the match(es) would have been nice, and could have saved me from typing some boilerplate code. Tyrael