From: Operating system: Windows 7 PHP version: 5.3.3 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:json_decode doesn't always work
Description: ------------ In particular, "{\"test\": [\"\n\"]}" doesn't give the correct result. Examples follow. Test script: --------------- <?php $a = "{\"test\": [\"\n\"]}"; echo "$a\r\n"; var_dump(json_decode($a, true)); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I would expect an array to be output. ie. array(1) { ["test"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(1) " " } } Certainly javascript has no problem with it: <script src="http://github.com/kvz/phpjs/raw/master/functions/strings/echo.js"></script> <script src="http://github.com/kvz/phpjs/raw/master/functions/var/var_dump.js"></script> <script> a = {"test": ["\n"]}; var_dump(a); </script> Actual result: -------------- NULL -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52502&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52502&r=mysqlcfg