Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
[snip]
Looks like preg_* functions are used more often than ereg* functions to
me...
preg_quote() and preg_last_error() are support functions. They are used
together with other pcre functions. You double some search results.
Actually, searching for those by themselves shows only about 24K worth
of results - a far cry from doubling anything. Even adding /spliti?/ for
ereg results only increases it to around ~170K results.
If you have to support something, it is not about statistics. Even 1% is
important. Before you use statistics against something, remember that
statistics can be used against you too. Everyone of us is one in seven
billion. Any person is just 0,000000014% in Earth statistics.
Sure, it's not empirical data, however it's certainly useful as a means
for gauging (albeit roughly) the use of ereg* functions.
Regardless, we could really argue statistics all day if we wanted but,
that would be beside the point - which is that ereg* functions are, like
it or not, deprecated. Not that I mind given the fact that the preg*
functions are typically faster anyway.
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Carl
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