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RE: [SMARTY] selecting 4 characters starting from right of string

Geoffrey Hoffman

2005-02-17, 4:08 pm

Jean-Marc,

True true. Your point about performance is valid (although using the $
matches only the end in a preg_match so it wouldn't match .jpg.exe but
anyway substr is faster you're right) - but I would still tend to make a
plugin over putting php code in a template -

Cheers

* * *
Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Marc Fontaine
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [SMARTY] selecting 4 characters starting from right of string

Hello Geoffrey,

You should not use a regular expression for this purpose for performance
sake. A substr() is powerful enough.

BTW, your regular expression pattern will also match this filename
"dummy.jpg.exe". It's quite dangereous.

Regards.

Jean-Marc

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