AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

[Marielle Lange]

Ken,

Many thanks for the information. As you probably realized, the  
problem is not that I am unfamiliar with PCRE (I have used it for a  
long times, in PHP), the problem is more that I never realized that  
revolution was now correctly implementing PCRE.

Sure, there is this mention at the very bottom of the matchtext  
function. "Changes to Transcript: The regular expression format  
changed in version 2.0 to use PCRE compatible syntax". But when I  
tried the PCRE syntax in version 2.1, they were not working properly.  
I read that in version 2.5 or 2.6 regular expressions had been  
improved but there is no mention of PCRE in the "regular expression  
syntax" popup and examples haven't changed.

So how was I supposed to know that this has been fixed?

Back to the idea of a community documentation system, compare the  
ease of reading and information finding for:
     http://www.pcre.org/man.txt
and
     http://uk.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

Aren't the user contributed notes very handy too? Wouldn't doc on the  
web contribute to revolution visibility? Honestly, what I do use  
php.net for is for stealing ideas on how to code things... sometimes  
I translate this to revolution. A good wiki with rev doc could get  
other scripters very curious about revolution's extraordinary  
capabilities.

Marielle
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