Posted by JDS on 08/05/05 17:04

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:51:14 +0100, Colin McKinnon wrote:

> What makes you say that J? I find it much more sensible to use the same
> syntax that javascript supports (almost).

Well I find it more sensible to use the same syntax Perl supports. So
there.

(Just pointing out the arbitrainess of your statement.)

Actually, though, my subjective assessment comes to the same conclusion as
Alvaro -- that preg_* is more commonly used than ereg*. If for no other
reason than the "faster alternative" reason stated on the PHP website.

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