bugs is fixed on php (2010-05-12)
** Also affects: php via
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51741
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Fix Released
** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released = Confirmed
** Changed
The conversation around the upstream bug report continued... it was a
PHP error, as the docs in http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-
match.php read: preg_match() returns FALSE if an error occurred. --
but it was returning 0 for this error.
According to bjori at php.net in
This is neither PHP nor PCRE bug — the default backtrack limit
(xontrolled by pcre.backtrack_limit configuration directive) used by PHP
is too low for this case.
That is,
$ php
?php
$res = preg_match(/^(?:[^\[\]{}']+|'[^']*')+:(?:[^\[\]{}']+|'[^']*')+$/,
a:b);
echo $res, '
We've verified this bug occurs on the latest PHP version, 5.3.2
I will report it upstream.
di...@telemaco:~/Desktop/php-5.3.2/sapi/cli$ ./php --version
PHP 5.3.2 (cli) (built: Apr 25 2010 23:58:33)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend
The upstream bug report is here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51663
** Bug watch added: bugs.php.net/ #51663
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51663
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PHP preg_match doesn't match matching string
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565481
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** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
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** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt
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PHP preg_match doesn't match matching string
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565481
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