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Bug #77567 \s don't cache a   html decoded
Submitted: 2019-02-04 15:15 UTC Modified: 2019-02-04 16:14 UTC
From: thibaud at 42stores dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 7.2.14 OS: Ubuntu 18.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2019-02-04 15:15 UTC] thibaud at 42stores dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: https://php.net/function.html-entity-decode
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\s meta-character in regular expression don't cache the character resulting of a html_entity_decode of a string containing " " (using utf-8).

Test script:
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var_dump(preg_replace('/\s+/','!',html_entity_decode(' ')));


Expected result:
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string(1) "!"

Actual result:
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string(2) " "

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 [2019-02-04 16:14 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2019-02-04 16:14 UTC] nikic@php.net 
You are missing the /u modifier, to treat the string as UTF-8 and enable UCP mode:

var_dump(preg_replace('/\s+/u','!',html_entity_decode(' ')));
 
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