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Re: CTYPE [message #182679 is a reply to message #182676]

Mon, 26 August 2013 16:37

bill
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On 2013-08-26 4:29 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 26/08/13 09:25, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> It should also be noted that (Perl-compatible) regular expressions are
>> included in one of the ten areas you need to be knowledgable in
>> (“Strings & Patterns”), in order to pass the Zend Certified Engineer
>> PHP 5.3 test:
>> <http://www.zend.com/services/certification/php-5-certification/>
>> PointedEars
> I've been coding PHP for about 5years now and C/Unix/linux for over 30
> and I have never ever found it worthwhile using complex regexps.
>
> There is always a simpler way to do it.
>

You, Fiver and Thomas all have strong backgrounds compared to mine, I'm
sure. It's not that I have an aversion to regex on any solid opinions of
my own, but a lot of material I've read and committed to disc, from both
aged and current opinions, suggest regex isn't the best way to go.
So I checked with my remote server support folks and they also wish a
lot of people would stop using regex type patterns as they're
time-intensive, more so than the alternatives. But at the same time they
say they'll never ask a customer to NOT use them as they have plenty of
cpu time available. So it wasn't exactly definitive, but at least they
did make the comments for me. oh; it was a phone call for what that's
worth, not support e-mail. I have several websites parked there too so I
get free extended support.

At any rate, since regex types are like learning another language for
me, I'm happy to rationalize that I'm doing the right thing by not using
them. Also, a lot of the newer things added to PHP's latest versions,
many seem to be aimed at being able to work without using regex type things.

Cheers,

Twayne`

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		Re: CTYPE By: bill on Sun, 25 August 2013 19:00
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		Re: CTYPE By: Richard Yates on Sun, 25 August 2013 20:16
		Re: CTYPE By: bill on Mon, 26 August 2013 15:49
		Re: CTYPE By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sun, 25 August 2013 20:19
		Re: CTYPE By: bill on Mon, 26 August 2013 16:15
		Re: CTYPE By: Fiver on Sun, 25 August 2013 20:42
		Re: CTYPE By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 26 August 2013 08:25
		Re: CTYPE By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 26 August 2013 08:29
		Re: CTYPE By: bill on Mon, 26 August 2013 16:37
		Re: CTYPE By: Norman Peelman on Sun, 25 August 2013 19:11
		Re: CTYPE By: Tim Streater on Sun, 25 August 2013 22:04
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: bill on Sun, 25 August 2013 19:35
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: Fiver on Mon, 26 August 2013 18:07
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 26 August 2013 19:19
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: Fiver on Mon, 26 August 2013 20:51
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 26 August 2013 20:57
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: bill on Tue, 27 August 2013 21:20
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 27 August 2013 23:47
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: Tim Streater on Mon, 26 August 2013 21:07
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: bill on Wed, 28 August 2013 12:49
		Re: CTYPE THREAD RESOLVED By: bill on Tue, 27 August 2013 21:18

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