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October 14, 2003
Operators in PHP
There's an odd conversation about a proposal to add a new operator to PHP for regular expressions. To start things off, I don't like regex's at all. I find them useful for some tasks, but overall, they're confusing, bulky, slow, and just a pain in the ass to debug.
George basically summed up my feelings towards the whole thing with this post:
Now _that's_ the best idea so far! I actually propose a set of operators
=~ PCRE
=-) POSIX (happy, because there on every system)
>={ strstr (evil, because it's confusing - which is needle, which is haystack?)
Posted by Dan at October 14, 2003 01:06 PM