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Bug #54517 word boundary \b fails with Scandinavian alphabet
Submitted: 2011-04-12 21:19 UTC Modified: 2011-04-13 10:40 UTC
From: antti dot nylund at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Regexps related
PHP Version: 5.3.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-04-12 21:19 UTC] antti dot nylund at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.preg-match-all
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Word preceding ö ä or å will not be matched/counted.
Tried setting local with setlocale(LC_ALL, "fi_FI");

Test script:
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$teststring = "Talvivaate on talvikäyttöön ja kesävaate on kesäkäyttöön.";
preg_match_all("/\bvaate\b/i",$teststring,$keywords,PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); 
$rows = count($keywords[0],0);
echo $rows;




Expected result:
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Should print 2

Actual result:
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Prints out 1

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 [2011-04-13 10:40 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-04-13 10:40 UTC] cataphract@php.net 
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a bug.  The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
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Thank you for your interest in PHP.

Prints 0 with the u flag, as expected since at least 5.3.4 when the PCRE_UCP started being used when u is present.
 
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