Re: [PHP-DEV] pcre (Perl C regular expression) module for php3 From: Andrey Zmievski (zmievski <email protected>)
Date: 05/14/99

Michael Barnes wrote:
> Hi all, I'm new to php3 and this list, and I have been quite impressed
> with php3 with 1 exception, regular expressions.
>
> I have been writing a php3 frontend for the pcre library by Philip Hazel.
> Has anyone else done this? Is this of interest to someone besides me?
>
> So far I have 2 public functions written preg and preg_op. preg is the
> same as ereg except it uses Perl style pattern matching, and preg_op is
> like eregi except it can be passed a string of options for caseless
> matching (/i option in Perl), extended matching (/x option in Perl),
> multiline matching (/m option in Perl).
>
>
> Feedback and Testers are welcome.

I'd better explain what I'm doing with PCRE.

I am building a PCRE module for PCRE that will allow people to use Perl-style
expressions with any options supported by the library and also a /g for
global matching. I was afraid this was going to happen, that is, someone
else would start writing one before I'm done. Same thing happened with WDDX
module...

-Andrey
* Only 19,999 lines of C++ to my next ski trip... * 

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