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+Status: Not a bug
  [2018-04-05 21:44 UTC] requinix@php.net
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Description: ------------ In regular expressions an unescaped minus character (-) in character classes is usually used to declare a range. However when the range makes no sense, it is treated as a literal minus character. This seems still to be true for most occasions in 7.3-dev except for one special combination, where the minus sits between a shortcut character class and a dollar sign. Eg. /[\w-$]/. Previous PHP versions would treat this as word characters, minus and dollar. PHP 7.3-dev throws an error. Test script: --------------- <?php $tests = [ '/[\w-$]/', '/[\w-]/', '/[-\w]/', '/[$-]/', '/[-$]/', ]; echo PHP_VERSION; echo "\n"; foreach($tests as $test) { echo "$test\n"; preg_match($test,''); } Expected result: ---------------- 7.2.3 /[\w-$]/ /[\w-]/ /[-\w]/ /[$-]/ /[-$]/ Actual result: -------------- 7.3.0-dev /[\w-$]/ Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 3 in /var/www/test.php on line 16 /[\w-]/ /[-\w]/ /[$-]/ /[-$]/