note 92857 deleted from intro.pcre by joey
| From: | joey@php.net | Date: | Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:24:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 92857 deleted from intro.pcre by joey | ||
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Note Submitter: Anonymous
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php supports posix regular expressions, but only in the short term.
pcre seems capable of most things posix regex does
One point of difference is that PCRE requires you delimit your regex, that is: start and end it with
a character that is not used elsewhere in the regex,
this provides a space after the ending delimiter to put option characters.