On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:22 +0100, Nuno Lopes wrote: > PCRE has a POSIX API, so it is possible to use PCRE as a drop-in replacement > for the engine behind ereg(). What I don't know is how compatible it is with > the current engine. But I think it worth investigating.
Worked fine when I tested it. But it's quite pointless, it's still not unicode friendly. It's just better to use system POSIX regex funcs if ext/ereg/ is to stay..which is stupid since all functions it provides can be easily replaced with unicode friendly preg_* funcs. Nobody should use ereg_*() for anything if they want to use unicode. If they don't need unicode, they don't need PHP 6 either. > P.S.: this POSIX PCRE layer isn't currently bundled with PHP, because it > wasn't needed so far. It is bundled, just isn't compiled, see above.. :) --Jani -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
