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Bug #26330 inconsistent behaviour of \b for win&*nix?
Submitted: 2003-11-20 08:19 UTC Modified: 2003-11-20 19:26 UTC
From: space at outthere dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: win/linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-11-20 08:19 UTC] space at outthere dot net 
Description:
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running a regexp in windows and later on linux yeilded different results: 

$new = preg_replace("/\b?sterreich\b/i", "A", "Germany ?sterreich France");

will replace on windows systems but will fail on unix boxes. 





Reproduce code:
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$new = preg_replace("/\b?sterreich\b/i", "A", "Germany ?sterreich France");
print $new;




Expected result:
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Germany A France


Actual result:
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win: 
> Germany A France
linux:
> Germany ?sterreich France

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 [2003-11-20 19:26 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

\b is locale dependant and I suspect the locales on your Win32 and Linux servers differ, hence the different behaviour.
 
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