Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30978 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82957 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Jul 2007 14:22:17 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82942 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 14:22:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2007 14:22:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=nlopess@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=nlopess@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 212.55.154.25 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: nlopess@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.55.154.25 relay5.ptmail.sapo.pt Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [212.55.154.25] ([212.55.154.25:35611] helo=sapo.pt) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BB/53-62403-71F7B964 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:22:16 -0400 Received: (qmail 9776 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 14:22:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sapo.pt) (10.134.35.210) by relay6 with SMTP; 16 Jul 2007 14:22:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 24664 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 14:22:08 -0000 X-AntiVirus: PTMail-AV 0.3-0.90.3 X-Virus-Status: Clean (0.01219 seconds) Received: from unknown (HELO pc07653) (nunoplopes@sapo.pt@[82.155.75.216]) (envelope-sender ) by mta15 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jul 2007 14:22:08 -0000 Message-ID: <001901c7c7b4$af82e3e0$0100a8c0@pc07653> To: "PHP Developers Mailing List" References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <54C4340A-D9EA-4B5A-B39C-B55B29B1B3BC@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648193@us-ex1.zend.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:22:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes") PCRE has a POSIX API, so it is possible to use PCRE as a drop-in replacement for the engine behind ereg(). What I don't know is how compatible it is with the current engine. But I think it worth investigating. Nuno P.S.: this POSIX PCRE layer isn't currently bundled with PHP, because it wasn't needed so far.