PCRE question

[Daniel]

Hello,

It was my understanding that when the PCRE module was loaded in php
that constants would be available that were built in to that module.
For example, I need to use some flags with my regular expression, but
they don't seem to be loaded. Here's an example:

var_dump(PCRE_MULTILINE);
var_dump(PCRE_DOTALL);
var_dump(PCRE_MULTILINE | PCRE_DOTALL);

the lines above produce this output

string(14) "PCRE_MULTILINE"
string(11) "PCRE_DOTALL"
string(14) "PCRE_M_\UMLINE"

Shouldn't those be long values rather than string values?

Could there be a configuration problem with my WAMP test environment?

Thanks,
Daniel

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro?= G. Vicario]

*** Daniel escribió/wrote (Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:10:30 -0700 (PDT)):

It was my understanding that when the PCRE module was loaded in php
that constants would be available that were built in to that module.
For example, I need to use some flags with my regular expression, but
they don't seem to be loaded. Here's an example:

var_dump(PCRE_MULTILINE);
var_dump(PCRE_DOTALL);
var_dump(PCRE_MULTILINE | PCRE_DOTALL);

the lines above produce this output

string(14) "PCRE_MULTILINE"
string(11) "PCRE_DOTALL"
string(14) "PCRE_M_\UMLINE"

Shouldn't those be long values rather than string values?

Could there be a configuration problem with my WAMP test environment?

Yes, it seems you haven't enabled the error reporting. Find your php.ini
file and set these values:

display_errors = On
error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT
According to the PHP manual all the constants of the extension begin with
PREG_* so you should get a notice about undefined constants:

http://es.php.net/manual/en/pcre.constants.php


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