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Bug #3006 str_repeat messing with the output buffer?
Submitted: 1999-12-19 14:53 UTC Modified: 2000-06-09 03:39 UTC
From: leon at leonatkinson dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 4.0 Beta 3 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-12-19 14:53 UTC] leon at leonatkinson dot com 
This code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>str_repeat</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?
	print(str_repeat("PHP!<BR>\n", 10));
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

produces this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>str_repeat</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
PHP!<BR>
 </BODY>
</HTML>

Note the extra space just before the closing body tag.

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 [1999-12-20 11:58 UTC] andrei at cvs dot php dot net 
I have not been able to reproduce this with the latest CVS. Could
you try it with the latest version and see if it happens?
 [2000-06-09 03:39 UTC] zeev at cvs dot php dot net 
No response for quite a while...
If the problem persists with 4.0.0, please submit a new bug report.
 [2002-02-20 06:59 UTC] helbockNOSPAM at secession dot com 
echo strlen(str_repeat("a",3));

will output "4" on php4.0 beta 3, which proves that str_repeat deliberately adds one character to the end of the string. 

when tested with a later version (php 4.0.5) this error did not occur anymore.
 
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