Rik wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:12:32 +0100, Generale Cluster
> <alex@carrarosoftmasters.net> wrote:
>
>> Jerry Stuckle ha scritto:
>>> Generale Cluster wrote:
>>>> Jerry Stuckle ha scritto:
>>>>> Rik wrote:
>>>>>> Generale Cluster <alex@carrarosoftmasters.net> wrote:
>> [CUT]
>>> That's the difference. I prefer code which is easily understandable.
>>> You had trouble getting it to work in the first place. What happens
>>> when you have to look at it six months or a year from now when you
>>> have to work on it again? You'll go through all of his again to
>>> understand what it does.
>> [CUT]
>>
>> comment, comment, comment and comment again :-)
>
> Commenting in the single line?
> Just tell them to leave everything between <?php ?> alone and it should
> be OK, no reason to forced single line statements. About that, if you're
> worried about that, then why not just code it on the single line on
> normal code? Linebreaks aren't actually required in PHP, so you could
> just leave them in, and when the code needs to be updated you can whip
> it into some kind of formatted readable shape quite fast with any
> competent texteditor.
>
> But the main reason for me posting here in this thread is about
> commenting: I'd like to take the oppertunity advocate the user of the /x
> modifier for regexes. These pesky little things are often forgotten in
> the commenting, while it's so easy.
>
> Compare (not a very useful regex, just an illustration):
>
> $regex = '/(a|b){2,4}([^\s]+?)c{2,4}(.*?)q/si'
>
> And
> $regex = '/{a|b}{2,4} #start matching at 2 to 4 a's or b's in a row
> ([^\s]+?) #capture all non whitespace untill the next match
> c{2,4} #match 2 to 4 c's
> (.*?) #capture any character
> q #until q
> /six'; //case-insensite, with comments
>
> Now, that will be a lot easier altered and understood by coworkers I'd
> imagine..
> --Rik Wasmus

Rik,

I agree - this makes a lot more sense, especially to those of us who are
regex-challenged. :-) I really do wish more people would comment their
regex's. It sometimes takes me a while to decode just what they're
trying to do.

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