From the “why-do-I-need-Perl-any-more” department…
PHP now provides perl-like regex functions, and writing websites has never been so much fun! I have always loved Perl for text parsing of any kind, and I realize that was because of its powerful regex functionality. During some recent PHP contract work for my friend John, I discovered that PHP’s got perl regex, via this…
preg_match( $perl_style_regex, $source, $match_result_array ).I can scrape like a madman now. Happy happy joy joy. Anyone who disparages PHP has either never used it or has been trained in the pretentious ways of the Java prima donna. (JUST KIDDIN’ yall!) 😛
