On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
For example, what would =~ do when you build PHP without PCRE support? Would it simply not work? Would it fall back to Posix-style regex? Why should PCRE-regex get an operator and Posix-style shouldn't? So we need two different types of regex operators?
Now _that's_ the best idea so far! I actually propose a set of operators
=~ PCRE
=-) POSIX (happy, because there on every system)
>={ strstr (evil, because it's confusing - which is needle, which is haystack?)
+1
Zeev
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