Posted by Jason Carlton on 11/29/07 09:32

> The preg_* functions take Perl-compatible regular expressions.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
>
> --
> Jock

Jock, I did NOT realize this! Wow, you've just opened up a whole new
world for me. I've been programming in Perl for about 12 years and
only recently started using PHP, so these expressions are going to
make a world of difference.

Just curious, are these expressions slower than innate PHP
expressions? The whole reason I started using PHP in the first place
was for a little extra speed while utilizing databases.

- Jason

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