Re: Perl regular expressions

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> writes:

Scott> And you can use perl regex in PHP as well, since it supports the PCRE
Scott> lib.

Well, *almost* Perl.  Despite its name, PCRE is a misnomer, since it's
not really Perl and it's not entirely compatible. :) Yes, it's a
powerful regular expression engine, but Perl regexen can still do some
common things that cannot be done with PCRE.

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