From: "Gabino Travassos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm wondering if Regular Expressions are the same in Perl and PHP (and > possibly Actionscript)? They look the same and smell the same, but if I see > a book in a store for Perl Regular Expressions that's $10 cheaper than the > PHP one (is there one?), then is it the same thing?
The regular expressions used in the preg_* functions "closely resembles Perl". The basic syntax is the same. The regular expressions used in the ereg_* functions are POSIX-Extended. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php (Perl-compatible) http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php (POSIX Extended) ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
