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Rev

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What the devil language is that in?? I see a /D flag, and you’ve quoted it with single quotes yet also used slashes to delimit the pattern? It’s not Perl, and it can’t be PCRE. Is it therefore PHP? I believe those are the only three that allow recursion like (?1).

tchrist
– tchrist

2010-11-07 20:32:57 +00:00
Commented Nov 7, 2010 at 20:32
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It's in PHP, which uses PCRE. The slashes are used only to delimit special characters like parentheses, square brackets, and of course slashes and single quotes. The /D flag, if you didn't know, is to prevent a newline being added to the end of the string, which would be allowed otherwise.

Michael
– Michael

2011-02-19 18:24:16 +00:00
Commented Feb 19, 2011 at 18:24

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