You call it broken, we call it finally making them POSIX-compliant.
Whatever floats your boat.
-Rasmus
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Alain Samoun wrote:
> >
> > Manuel:
> > What is broken with strtok() since php4.06? So far my code that use it seems
> > to work ok with PHP4.10...??? I'd Like to know ;)
>
> If the token character is the first of the string you want to tokenize,
> now strtok ignores it, before it would return an empty string. For
> instance strtok("/something","/") would return "" but since strtok was
> broken it returns "something". This makes strtok completely useless to
> break an arbitrary string by tokens because it will discard the first
> token if it is an empty string.
>
> The strtok function behaved like that since it was introduced in PHP 3.
> If you figure that this change will break your PHP code, you may want to
> try the function in the page below. It also contains a fixed version of
> dirname that was also broke between PHP 4 and 4.1.0.
>
> Regards,
> Manuel Lemos
>
>
> > A+
> > Alain
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 2:44 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Mena
> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: strtok bug
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Robert Mena wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, does anybody know when the strtok bug introduced
> >
> > After 4.0.6 .
> >
> > > in 4.1.1 will be fixed ?
> > > Will we have a 4.1.2 or should I try to grab a cvs
> > > tree (assuming that it is already solved) ?
> >
> > You may want to ask that in php-dev mailing list because last time that
> > I reported it I was told that it would not be fixed because it was just
> > me complaining.
> >
> > Actually, I don't think that who has broken strtok noticed that he
> > broken the behaviour that was always like that since the function was
> > introduced in PHP 3, so the change was never documented. This suggests
> > that like you and me there are certainly much more people affected that
> > have not realized that strtok was broken and that it will affect their
> > code.
> >
> > Anyway, since PHP developers do not seem to be willing to fix what they
> > broke, regardless if they ever reconsider, you may want to try this
> > alternative function that behaves like the original and only relies on
> > functions that were not (yet) broken, so you don't stop yourself from
> > upgrading PHP.
> >
> > http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/404
> >
> > I also had several popular classes of mine broken because of the strtok
> > bug. Since they are very popular the changes were announce in Freshmeat
> > which according to the PHP Classes site they were downloaded by more
> > than 30.000 users, despite on of the justifications for not fixing the
> > bug was that it was not affecting significant code bases, which is not
> > true as you may notice.
> >
> > Email validation class
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/66935/
> >
> > HTTP client class
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/66937/
> >
> > POP3 client class
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/66938/
> >
> > MIME message composing and sending class
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/66936/
> >
> > SMTP client class
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/66940/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Manuel Lemos
> >
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