On 04/08/06, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > Recently I wrote a piece of code to scrape data from an HTML page. > > Part of that code deleted all the unwanted text from the very top of the > page, where it says "<!DOCTYPE", all the way down to the first instance > of a "<ul>" tag. > Is there any reason why either ereg or preg would be more desirable over > the other? >
Ereg uses POSIX regular expressions which only work on textual data and include locale functionalily. preg uses PCRE, which work on binary as well as textual data and is a more sophisticated regex engine, incorporating minimal matching, backreferences, inline options, lookahead/lookbehind assertions, conditional expressions and so on. They are often faster than the POSIX equivalents also. -- http://www.web-buddha.co.uk http://www.projectkarma.co.uk
