Larry Wall: > Ruud H.G. van Tol: >> John Macdonald: >>> [trans] >>> If a shorter rule is allowed to match first, then the longer >>> rule can be removed from the match set, at least for constant >>> string matches. >> >> It is not about the length of the rules, but about the length of the >> matches. > > They're the same thing when only fixed strings are allowed. We've > only been calling the[m] "rules" for lack of a better term, but they > aren't rules, or even regexes. Transliteration is "literal".
Yes, I let "rules" carry me away. Maybe with a little help from misreading the phrase "In the case that more than one sequence of input characters matches" (S05). And of using PHP's preg_replace() too. -- Grtz, Ruud
