hholzgra Tue Dec 11 15:32:17 2001 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/functions regex.xml
Log:
ereg will now return real match count instead of
a fixed-size 10 element array
Index: phpdoc/en/functions/regex.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/functions/regex.xml:1.32 phpdoc/en/functions/regex.xml:1.33
--- phpdoc/en/functions/regex.xml:1.32 Fri Dec 7 16:53:39 2001
+++ phpdoc/en/functions/regex.xml Tue Dec 11 15:32:16 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.32 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.33 $ -->
<reference id="ref.regex">
<title>Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)</title>
<titleabbrev>Regexps</titleabbrev>
@@ -128,16 +128,18 @@
which starts at the first left parenthesis; $regs[2] will contain
the substring starting at the second, and so on. $regs[0] will
contain a copy of the complete string matched.
- </simpara>
- <simpara>
- If <function>ereg</function> finds any matches at all, $regs will
- be filled with exactly ten elements, even though more or fewer
- than ten parenthesized substrings may actually have matched.
- This has no effect on <function>ereg</function>'s ability to
- match more substrings. If no matches are found, $regs will not be
- altered by <function>ereg</function>.
- </simpara>
- <simpara>
+ </simpara>
+ <note>
+ <simpara>
+ Up to (and including) PHP 4.1.0 <literal>$regs</literal> will
+be
+ filled with exactly ten elements, even though more or fewer
+than
+ ten parenthesized substrings may actually have matched. This
+has
+ no effect on <function>ereg</function>'s ability to match more
+ substrings. If no matches are found, <literal>$regs</literal>
+ will not be altered by <function>ereg</function>.
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ <simpara>
Searching is case sensitive.
</simpara>
<simpara>
