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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why is ereg being deprecated?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Mark Krenz <mark@suso.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:27:02PM GMT, Pierre Joye [pierre.php@gmail.com=
] said the following:
>>
>> The ereg functions cannot work with Unicode and can't be fixed without
>> rewriting them. Nobody likes to do it as pcre works just fine and has
>> many active maintainers (inside and outside php).
>>
>
> =A0But I'm willing to bet that the majority of people are using ereg, not
> PCRE. =A0I've known about PCRE in PHP for a while now, but I continue to
> use ereg because I thought it had better support in PHP and that it was
> the more "official" function. Guess I was wrong. =A0I'm sure I'm not the
> only one who thought this.


Let me use another example to make you understand the situation.

I bought a car, which is great, I can repair it myself, can drive
anywhere I want, etc. 50 years later, the gaz reserve are out (bio gaz
etc. as well). I can "STRONGLY stress" anyone in the world to make my
car works with the new combustible, that won't help, my car simply
does not work with the new combustible. I have now two choices:

1. adapt myself and walk more (or buy a new car)
2. patch my car to work with the new combustible and provide it to the
cars developers so everyone else can enjoy the old cars for the next
decade.

Please note that I knew for years that I won't find gaz anymore at some poi=
nt.

Shorter version: Topics have been discussed to death, move on, nothing to s=
ee.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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