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_get_wptexturize_split_regex( string $shortcode_regex = '' ): string

Since
4.4.0
Source
wp-includes/formatting.php:686
Retrieves the combined regular expression for HTML and shortcodes.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.4.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$shortcode_regexstringoptional
The result from _get_wptexturize_shortcode_regex().Default: ''

Return value

string
The regular expression.

Performance profile

How much work a call to _get_wptexturize_split_regex() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
9–12

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 15.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost _get_wptexturize_split_regex() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always9–12none

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 15 instructions, 9–12 executed per call, 2 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Used by · 1

  • wptexturize()Replaces common plain text characters with formatted entities.

Source code

function _get_wptexturize_split_regex( $shortcode_regex = '' ) {	static $html_regex; 	if ( ! isset( $html_regex ) ) {		// phpcs:disable Squiz.Strings.ConcatenationSpacing.PaddingFound -- don't remove regex indentation		$comment_regex =			'!'             // Start of comment, after the <.			. '(?:'         // Unroll the loop: Consume everything until --> is found.			.     '-(?!->)' // Dash not followed by end of comment.			.     '[^\-]*+' // Consume non-dashes.			. ')*+'         // Loop possessively.			. '(?:-->)?';   // End of comment. If not found, match all input. 		$html_regex = // Needs replaced with wp_html_split() per Shortcode API Roadmap.			'<'                  // Find start of element.			. '(?(?=!--)'        // Is this a comment?			.     $comment_regex // Find end of comment.			. '|'			.     '[^>]*>?'      // Find end of element. If not found, match all input.			. ')';		// phpcs:enable	} 	if ( empty( $shortcode_regex ) ) {		$regex = '/(' . $html_regex . ')/';	} else {		$regex = '/(' . $html_regex . '|' . $shortcode_regex . ')/';	} 	return $regex;}

Changelog

Introduced in 4.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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