Re: filter function vs regular expression

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On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:22 +0100, Alain Roger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm reading a book about PHP and i was wondering why regular expressions are
> so often used to check format of variables or emails while the function
> filter exists since version 5.2.
> What are the plus of regular expression while checking variable format ?
> thx.

Because then your app would lose all compatibility with versions below
5.2.

Cheers,
Rob.
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