Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2879 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60537 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 06:57:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 06:57:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 19511 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 06:57:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO andi-home.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 06:57:12 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030627100004.0511cb08@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:01:05 +0200 To: Andrei Zmievski , PHP Internals In-Reply-To: <20030626171243.GF5721@hyperion.gravitonic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] More preg_match_* control From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) References: <20030626171243.GF5721@hyperion.gravitonic.com> 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: >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. * > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php