note 66020 deleted from function.ereg by tularis

Note Submitter: petfrogg at hotmail dot com ---- 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.