Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9029: preg_split inconsistency

2001-01-31 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > Well, given that the aim of the function is to be as perl-compatible, it > would be nice to make this default behaviour. The breakage of any scripts > would be pretty easy to spot, if they did use brackets wrongly, so an entry in > NEWS ought to en

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9029: preg_split inconsistency

2001-01-31 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
Quoting Andrei Zmievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I could add this functionality but I am not sure if it would break > people's scripts because they used parentheses without expecting to > receive captured delimiters. What does everyone think? Should it be that > way by default or should we have ano

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9029: preg_split inconsistency

2001-01-31 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The brackets aren't captured, which makes the Scheme parsing a bit difficult :-) >There are other ways to do this, of course, but the preg_split() would be the >simplest and the most efficient way to do it, as far as we can see. > > I noticed tha

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9029: preg_split inconsistency

2001-01-31 Thread Wico de Leeuw
you gotta escape the escapes $b = preg_split('/([\\(\\)])/', $a); Greetz, Wico At 13:13 31-1-01 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Operating system: OpenBSD 2.8 >PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 >PHP Bug Type: PCRE related >Bug description: preg_split inconsi

[PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #9029: preg_split inconsistency

2001-01-31 Thread anil
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: OpenBSD 2.8 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: PCRE related Bug description: preg_split inconsistency While trying to write a simple Scheme parser in PHP, we encountered this problem: In perl, you can capture the delimiters passed