note 12702 deleted from function.ereg by jimw

After performing numerous performance tests between ereg and preg_match, I have found that preg_match is significantly faster, and it really is not that much more difficult to learn than ereg. In fact, many ereg expressions can be easily modified to preg_match format by simply adding "/" to the beginning, "/i" to the end (i if case insensitive, omit if not), and then adding a backslash before every "/" within the old string. As I said above, preg_match is much faster than ereg. For example, a page that was performing significant parsing took approximately .41 seconds with ereg compared to .24 for preg_match (same basic regular expressions given the above modifications). I don't see any reason to ever use ereg.