Re: [PHP-DEV] removing ereg functions

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

> wouldn't it be in at least the best interest to have split and other functions to 
>use preg instead of ereg?
> this might add some bloat to code, but it might be an interesting default speedup.

No, because POSIX and Perl-style regular expressions are not compatible.
That's why we have a preg_split() function.

> by all means, keep ereg.  unless you can get ereg to act just like preg, you can't 
>get rid of it.

And vice versa.  The two libs are not compatible.

-Rasmus


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