Re: [PHP4BETA] Status of regular expressions?

Julien Stern wrote: > Hi all, > > so, there is now the reg.c which handles the (I believe) fully > POSIX compliant regular expressions and the pcre module which > handle the Perl compatible regexs... > > Is this going to change? Is this going to be somehow unified? > Is there a performance difference between the two? > > Also, it's probably not a problem to have two different ways to handle > regexs, but if, say, functions from different libraries are to take > different types of regex patterns as their inputs, > it might cause some confusion, no ? I don't think there are any plans currently to unify the two regular expressions modules. For one, it would be very difficult to do, since Perl ones provide much more functionality than POSIX ones. Perl compatible regexs are also much faster than the POSIX ones. I do wish more people would start using them, but I guess a lot of site still run pre-3.0.9 versions which did not have PCRE. -Andrey * I wish life had an UNDO function. *