Re: [PHP] Is there a special character I here? (Regular Expressions)

> I am starting on php, coming from Perl. One thing I really like on the way > we can use regex in Perl is the shorthand: > > \w --> [a-zA_Z0-9_] > \W --> [^a-zA_Z0-9_] > \d --> [0-9] > \D --> [^0-9] > \s --> white space characters > ... > > Is this shorthand handled in php? Sure, all the preg* f

Re: [PHP] Is there a special character I here? (Regular Expressions)

It's probably a good idea to learn a bit about regular expressions. In short, PHP gives us two types of regular expressions to play with, POSIX and PCRE. For more information : PCRE : http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php POSIX : http://php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php The following