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Asked: 2026-05-15T15:12:15+00:00

Why is ereg deprecated in PHP? I had a lot of functions which used

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Why is ereg deprecated in PHP?

I had a lot of functions which used this, now they always give warning.

What is the alternative of this too?

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    http://pl.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php

    Note: As of PHP 5.3.0, the regex extension is deprecated in favor of the PCRE extension. Calling this function will issue an E_DEPRECATED notice. See the list of differences for help on converting to PCRE.

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