ID: 49594 Comment by: a at b dot c dot de Reported By: jay at phpcourses dot ca Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: all PHP Version: 5.3.0 New Comment:
For the past eight years PHP has recommended using the PCRE regex functions. This has been noted on, for example, the manual page for ereg(). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-18 19:53:09] jay at phpcourses dot ca Description: ------------ why is PHP deprecating the pervasive, very important POSIX regex support? nearly every script i have ever written and/or taught in the past 8 years uses posix regex, and now it will ALL be useless? my customers will be disappointed and their code won't work. just LEAVE THE POSIX REGEX ALONE. Reproduce code: --------------- ereg('posix') Expected result: ---------------- success Actual result: -------------- the single worst mistake php has ever made ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49594&edit=1