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Bug #45384 parse_ini_file will result in parse error with no trailing newline
Submitted: 2008-06-28 03:05 UTC Modified: 2008-08-17 21:18 UTC
From: asonge@php.net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2008-06-28 (CVS) OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-06-28 03:05 UTC] asonge@php.net 
Description:
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an ini file with no trailing newline will result in "Parse error", php5.3 only, 5.2 parses the file fine

Reproduce code:
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$ echo -n "foo.bar = baz" > test.ini
$ /opt/php53/bin/php -r 'var_dump(parse_ini_file("test.ini"));'

Expected result:
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array(1) {
  ["foo.bar"]=>
  string(3) "baz"
}


Actual result:
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Warning: syntax error, unexpected $end in test.ini on line 1
 in Command line code on line 1

Call Stack:
    0.0003     312916   1. {main}() Command line code:0
    0.0128     312936   2. parse_ini_file() Command line code:1

array(0) {
}

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 [2008-06-28 11:22 UTC] mattwil@php.net 
This is probably also related to the re2c/YYFILL() scanner issues I described in Bug #45372.

I assume it's because a variable length rule is matching ("baz" in your example) when it hits EOF and YYFILL() causes a return/abort. This (unexpected $end) is more likely to happen with ini parsing, etc. where it doesn't usually happen with VALID code in a PHP script because the last thing matched in a typical file is with a fixed length rule (e.g. "?>" or ";"), and these things only happen with variable length matches as I explained in the other bug, though they shouldn't with working scanner code, IMO.


BTW, does putting a space or something other than a newline after baz allow it to work? Any character that's not allowed in the rule matching baz should also make it "magically" work. :-)
 [2008-06-29 00:50 UTC] asonge@php.net 
$ echo -n "foo.bar = baz " > test.ini
20:46 alex@asonge:~
$ /opt/php53/bin/php -r 'var_dump(parse_ini_file("test.ini"));'
array(1) {
  ["foo.bar"]=>
  string(4) "baz "
}

so the answer is, yes, a trailing space does not cause the error...if this needs to be marked as a duplicate, whatever it takes to get this working the same as php<=5.2
 [2008-07-29 11:18 UTC] mats dot lindh at gmail dot com 
The fix to #45372 did not fix this issue, the problem is still in both the PHP5_3 and HEAD branches.
 [2008-08-17 21:18 UTC] lbarnaud@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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