Re: [SM-DEVEL] perl compatible regular expressions

[Arcady G. <ant...@th...>]

"Philippe Mingo" <phi...@sq...> writes:

> I think you're right, its a glibc problem. I updated glibc in my Mandrake
> box and it worked. It also work if you upgrade to 8.1

Okay, so could someone answer my original question:
Is there any special reason why perl regular expressions are not used
in SM, and am I free to use preg_* functions?

BTW, PHP documentation says that:

     Note: preg_match(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular
     expression syntax, is often a faster alternative to ereg().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php
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Arcady Genkin