At 4/26/2001 05:33 AM, ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] wrote:
>i tried to do it myself and nearly fell off
>my chair becuase PHP makes you jump through
>hoops to do such a simple thing....
>
>print preg_replace('/<%([a-zA-Z]*)%>/e', "\$mioArray['$1']",  $testo);
>
>i never could understand why other languages
>made regular expressions so convoluted.
>why not just support the =~ binding operator
>instead of that awful function syntax...?

Perhaps this is in every Perl programmer's dream. :-) But perhaps
not every language has the luxury/willingness to include regular
expressions in the core language, since they think *that* is
convoluted.

Steve


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