note 19744 added to ref.regex

From: Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:40:11 +0000
Subject: note 19744 added to ref.regex
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Sadly, the Posix regexp evaluator (PHP 4.1.2) does not seem to support multi-character coallating sequences, even though such sequences are included in the man-page documentation. Specifically, the man-page discusses the expression "[[.ch.]]*c" which matches the first five characters of "chchcc". Running this expression in ereg_replace generates the error "Warning: REG_ECOLLATE". (Running an equivalent expression with only one character between the periods does work, however.) Multi-character coallating sequences are not supported! This is really, really too bad, because it would have provided a simple way to exlude words from the target. I'm going to go learn PCRE, now. :-( -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+19744 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+19744 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+19744

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