note 66020 added to function.ereg

According to the manual the usage of regexps are slower then build in functions. I was faced with the need of a conf-file in order to confirm to the company standard and in order to fix this I needed to parse strings and automaticly set the correct “type” of every type fetched from the conf-file as strings. I’ve red some examples of this using eregs but none worked for me. This is my working solution: function _setType($mValue){ $mReturnData = trim($mValue); switch($mReturnData){ case strtolower($mReturnData)== 'true': $mReturnData = true; break; case strtolower($mReturnData)== 'false': $mReturnData = false; break; case strtolower($mReturnData)== 'null': $mReturnData = null; break; case is_numeric($mReturnData): if($mReturnData == (integer)$mReturnData){ $mReturnData = (integer)$mReturnData; }else{ $mReturnData = (float)$mReturnData; } break; default: $mReturnData = $mReturnData; } return $mReturnData; } Hope it will help someone. ---- Server IP: 129.16.214.50 Probable Submitter: 212.112.184.254 ---- X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=7.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/66020 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66020 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/66020 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php