PHP regex delimiters, / vs. | vs. {} , what are the differences?
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In the PHP manual of PCRE, http://us.php.net/manual/en/pcre.examples.php, it gives 4 examples of valid patterns:
- /<\/\w+>/
- |(\d{3})-\d+|Sm
- /^(?i)php[34]/
- {^\s+(\s+)?$}
Seems that / , | or a pair of curly braces can use as delimiters, so is there any difference between them?
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