ID: 8339 User Update by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Open Bug Type: PCRE related Description: new preg_replace back reference handling not working Thoughts? It has been a month since I submitted this. Is it a real problem? Did I do something incorrect? Thanks. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-20 11:58:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED] phpinfo() reports: PHP Version 4.0.4 './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--enable-rule=EAPI' '--with-imap' '--with-curl=/usr' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--enable-track-vars=yes' '--disable-debug' I'm suddenly having problems with my PHPLIB template based application. The problem seems to be due to the new 4.0.4 back reference handling in preg_replace. Test code: error_reporting(E_ALL); print(preg_replace("/{FOO}/","$7.50","Amount is {FOO}")); Under PHP 4.0.2 the result is: Amount is $7.50 Under PHP 4.0.4 the result is: Amount is .50 No errors or warnings reported in either case. I reviewed the Changelog for 4.0.4 and found: Modified preg_replace() to accept Perl-style $n backreferences in addition to \n ones. (Andrei) Modified preg_replace() to ignore backreferences that refer to non-existing subpatterns. (Andrei) The second Changelog entry seems to disagree with a statement in the PCRE Pattern Syntax Manual section which states: However, if the decimal number following the backslash is less than 10, it is always taken as a back reference, and causes an error only if there are not that many capturing left parentheses in the entire pattern. In other words, the parentheses that are referenced need not be to the left of the reference for numbers less than 10. See the section entitled "Backslash" above for further details of the han- dling of digits following a backslash. The manual seems to say that back references without corresponding sub-patterns should generate an error/warning while the Changelog seems to say that a back reference without a corresponding sub-pattern is ignored. The behavior of 4.0.4 (using my example code) seems to be that the a back reference without a corresponding sub-pattern is not ignored but treated as a back reference without reporting an error warning. Note that change the replacement to "$17.50" which makes the back reference greater than 10 still results in a result of "Amount is .50". The above indicates to me that there is either a problem in the 4.0.4 code or the text of the manual. I attempted to workaround this in 4.0.4 with the following code: error_reporting(E_ALL); print(preg_replace("/{FOO}/","$7.50","Amount is {FOO}")); Reading the PCRE Syntax Manual section made me think that I could escape the "$" with a "". That didn't work. The result of the above code in 4.0.4 is: Amount is .50 Adding a space between the "$" and the "7" does stop the back reference issue, but leaves me with a space in my output which I really don't want. Am I missing something here or have I found a problem. Thanks for your help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8339 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]