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Always use the [delimiter] form of preg_quote.

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Dennis Pallett (http://blog.nocertainty.com/) wrote:

Why? It's an optional argument, right?

∴ Dennis Pallett | 16-Dec-2003 12:51pm est | http://blog.nocertainty.com/ | #3575

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Yes, it's optional, but if your regular expression delimiter is '/', and you have a '/' in your string, preg_quote without the [delimiter] argument won't escape it, and preg_quote would basically be useless.

I posted this because I actually did find a bug in someone else's PHP code because he didn't specify the [delimiter]. I have to tell him about his bug as soon as finals are over

∴ Keith | 16-Dec-2003 1:12pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #3576

Dennis Pallett (http://blog.nocertainty.com/) wrote:

Oh, thanks, I didn't know this (still learning PHP)

∴ Dennis Pallett | 17-Dec-2003 2:31pm est | http://blog.nocertainty.com/ | #3585

Dennis Pallett wrote:

Hehe, just came across this comment again. I'm now wondering why the hell I even asked that question. It's bloody obvious to use the [delimiter] argument. I know a bit more about PHP now

∴ Dennis Pallett | 10-Sep-2005 4:53pm est | #8271

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