On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:01:43PM -0500, Brian Moon wrote:
> IMO, I like preg_match to return a bool and preg_match_all return a count.
> But that is me. It may be thought of as inconsistent to some. I just see
> the functions has having a different purpose.
That would make sense. preg_match_all() would return 1 if only
one match is found, so there's no need for preg_match() to return
the number of matches.
However, even if preg_match() were to return a one or zero, it
would still function the same in boolean evaluations. That makes
the whole thing simply a matter of "correctness". Returning an
'int' would be more consistent but returning a boolean would be
specific.
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