Re: [PHP4BETA] php3 parser compatibility

From: Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:44:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] php3 parser compatibility
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Hello all, > > it appears to me that the following features of PHP3 are not covered in the > PHP4 scanner: > > <DOUBLE_QUOTES,BACKQUOTE>"\\"[0-7]{1,3} { > phplval->value.chval = (char) strtol (yytext+1, NULL, 8); > return CHARACTER; > } > > <DOUBLE_QUOTES,BACKQUOTE>"\\x"[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2} { > phplval->value.chval = (char) strtol (yytext+2, NULL, 16); > return CHARACTER; > } > > These features are very useful, I would not like to see them dropped. In fact they are, but PHP 4.0 has additional rules for quoted strings which indeed don't cover these. I'll look into covering them there as well. Zeev -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP 4 Beta

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