It was fat, slow and everything that you can do with POSIX regex you can easily do with PCRE regex, which is faster.
It is a decision forever. Do not expect it to come on PHP 5.4 (?) or PHP 6. Cheers, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Mark Krenz <m...@suso.org> wrote: > > I just found this out a couple days ago when I checked the ereg manual > page for something and was shocked. I searched around a bit but > couldn't find a straight answer on why this function is being removed? > Did the deprecation notice just get made in 5.3 or has it been there > longer than that? > > Thanks, > Mark > > -- > Mark S. Krenz > IT Director > Suso Technology Services, Inc. > http://suso.org/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Guilherme Blanco - Web Developer CBC - Certified Bindows Consultant Cell Phone: +55 (16) 9215-8480 MSN: guilhermebla...@hotmail.com URL: http://blog.bisna.com São Paulo - SP/Brazil -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
