Hi,
i'm reading a book about PHP and i was wondering why regular expressions are
so often used to check format of variables or emails while the function
filter exists since version 5.2.
What are the plus of regular expression while checking variable format ?
thx.
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Alain
i'm reading a book about PHP and i was wondering why regular expressions are
so often used to check format of variables or emails while the function
filter exists since version 5.2.
That's not so long.
What are the plus of regular expression while checking variable format ?
They' more
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote:
i'm reading a book about PHP and i was wondering why regular expressions
are
so often used to check format of variables or emails while the function
filter exists since version 5.2.
That's not so long.
What are the
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:22 +0100, Alain Roger wrote:
Hi,
i'm reading a book about PHP and i was wondering why regular expressions are
so often used to check format of variables or emails while the function
filter exists since version 5.2.
What are the plus of regular expression while
Nathan Nobbe wrote:
to elaborate, in general, the filter extension should be faster than
corresponding preg_* calls from user space. why? b/c, they
essentially are compiled calls to pcre (in many cases)
There is no or only the tiniest little difference - AFAICT preg_match
and the filter
/* From
http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/HTML_QuickForm/QuickForm/Rule/Email.php?r=1.4
*/
Huh. I was under the impression that it did full verification, as
according to RFC (2)822. Not that that's generally necessary, in fact
it's mostly just outdated crap, (the technical term I believe).
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Huh. I was under the impression that it did full verification, as
according to RFC (2)822. Not that that's generally necessary, in fact
it's mostly just outdated crap, (the technical term I believe).
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Richard Heyes
That's the problem with the filter extension. It's a black box and you
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