Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

No, my point of referring to it as 'half a wiki page' is because it's literally half a page in length compared to some of the other pages.



As a brief intro, it's great. You don't actually need more than that for the basics, because that will cover 95%+...



Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Quote from: Arantor on Today at 05:34:41 PM

What is given in the manual is a reasonable starting point for half a wiki page. Then you get to the realms of PHP's manual which contains quite a number of pages - but is s...

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Most of it is pure voodoo. I've been using regex in PHP for a decade and never touched half the stuff in the full manual, nor I suspect would I ever need to.



95%, probably even 99% of the use cases that turn up on our forums don't go beyond the absolut...



Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

My latest update to the page (the comment in the history explains the changes I made): http://ift.tt/Xez6XV...



Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions

Quote from: Arantor on Today at 04:42:03 PM

The problem with leading people to the definitive documentation is that it's insanely complicated. Regex is considered such voodoo within programming territory that I'd be *...

Re: Documentation needs additional information on Regular Expressions