Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Atsushi Ogawa said: > > > > How about changing the function name of each usage? > > > > regexp_replace: replace first > > regexp_replace_all: replace all > > regexp_ic_replace: replace first and case insensitive > > regexp_ic_replace_all: replace all and case insensitive > > > > > That's just horrible. The number of function names will double with each > supported flag (e.g. I'd like to see extended regexes supported). > > surely somthing like > > foo_replace (source text, pattern text, replacement text, flags text) > returns text > > would fit the bill. OK, it reflects my Perl prejudices, but that looks more > natural to me. You could overload it so that the flags default to none > (which would be case sensitive, replace the first instance only, among other > things).
Can we have the flags be a list of words, e.g. "all, ignorecase". How do we handle this type of problem in other cases? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
