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More preg_match_* control

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Andrei Zmievski

23 years ago
Hi, Apparently a few people are doing a lot of bioinformatics data sifting with PHP and one of them asked me if it would be possible to add a parameter to preg_match_* functions to indicate the starting offset for the search. I think it's a good idea, and having looked at the current implementation, I think this parameter can just come after the 'flags' one. It won't be used that often, so specifying 0 for flags in that case is okay. Any thoughts or objections? -Andrei * Entropy isn't what it used to be. *

Sebastian Bergmann

23 years ago
Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> Any thoughts or objections?
On a sidenote, the bundled PCRE library is a bit outdated (I have 4.x on my GENTOO laptop, for instance). Can ext/pcre be built against a system library rather than the bundled one? Last time I tried it failed.
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Andi Gutmans

23 years ago
I wonder if these people have a summary of things they ideally need. Then we could have ext/bioinformatics. Who knows, it might bring PHP to new places. Anyway, I'm neutral about the parameter change. Will it be a default parameter? Andi At 01:12 PM 26/6/2003 -0400, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

Andrei Zmievski

23 years ago
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> I wonder if these people have a summary of things they ideally need. Then > we could have ext/bioinformatics. Who knows, it might bring PHP to new > places. > Anyway, I'm neutral about the parameter change. Will it be a default > parameter?
Yes, it would. Defaulting to 0 of course. -Andrei <yaragn> ever seen that movie? The Matrix? <yaragn> with those green lines of flying text? <yaragn> *THAT'S* Perl