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Re:If PHP Were British by code_duck on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:18AM (#2906804)
yeah, where does 'perform' come from?
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Re:If PHP Were British by Luyt on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:46AM (#2906875)
COBOL. But I think the author didn't know that the preg_*() functions use regular expressions the same way Perl does.
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Re:If PHP Were British by DaveChild on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:50AM (#2908867)
I did know that, but wasn't sure the "p" stood for "perl". The manual page for preg_match leads with "preg_match — Perform a regular expression match", so I went with that.
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Re:If PHP Were British by code_duck on Monday August 22, 2011 @04:16PM (#2913935)
True, and you never know with PHP.

The preg functions are wrappers around the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, though (PCRE) vs the older POSIX greg PHP functions, so I do think they mean Perl.

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