ID: 49198 User updated by: inf3rno dot hu at gmail dot com Reported By: inf3rno dot hu at gmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: PCRE related Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.2.10 New Comment:
Tried out in javascript too: same result, so I were wrong :-) sorry <body onload="init();"> php:<br /> <?php $p1='/.*/'; $test='some text'; function test($m) { echo '"'.$m[0].'"'; echo '<br />'; return $m[0]; } preg_replace_callback($p1,'test',$test); ?><br /> javascript:<br /> <script> function init() { var p1=<?php echo $p1;?>g; var test="<?php echo $test;?>"; test.replace(p1,function (m) { document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode('"'+m+'"')); document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('br')); return m; }); } </script> </body> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-10 15:42:16] inf3rno dot hu at gmail dot com I don't agree. How do you explain the same behaviour with the .*$ pattern? I think .* have to return a single string not two, it's simple logic. One match for one string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-09 11:55:26] ras...@php.net I am also pretty sure that this isn't actually a bug. Doing a match_all on a non-anchored pattern containing .* is going to match an empty string. Remember that * means 0 or more instances of the previous term. So, you are doing a match_all for 0 or more characters, and when you do this non-anchored you are going to get an empty string matching that. Change it to .+ (+ means 1 or more) and your patterns start to make sense and as you will see, the output is what you expect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-09 11:11:23] ras...@php.net If you change: preg_match_all($p,$t,$m,PREG_SET_ORDER); to: preg_match($p,$t,$m); There is no empty match. I get this output: /.*/<br /><div style="color: green;">ok</div><pre>array ( 0 => 'some text', )</pre><br /><br />/.*$/<br /><div style="color: green;">ok</div><pre>array ( 0 => 'some text', )</pre><br /><br />/^.*/<br /><div style="color: green;">ok</div><pre>array ( 0 => 'some text', )</pre><br /><br />/^.*$/<br /><div style="color: green;">ok</div><pre>array ( 0 => 'some text', )</pre><br /><br /> If you can get this effect with preg_match(), please show how. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-09 10:49:19] inf3rno dot hu at gmail dot com It's not preg_match_all specific, same bug with every preg function. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-08 21:04:32] paj...@php.net Not windows specific ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/49198 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49198&edit=1