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Request #34876 preg_split should return empty array when splitting ""
Submitted: 2005-10-14 22:12 UTC Modified: 2005-10-18 22:14 UTC
From: embeddedlinuxguy at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.0.5 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-10-14 22:12 UTC] embeddedlinuxguy at gmail dot com 
Description:
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$b = preg_split("/q/", "", PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

should return an empty array (0 elements).  Instead it returns an array with one element which is an empty string, i.e. ("").  This is the same with or without PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY.

Compare to Perl

my @a = split(/q/, "");

Here @a == () not ("")

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 [2005-10-18 22:14 UTC] embeddedlinuxguy at gmail dot com 
Oops, I should have used
preg_split("/q/", "", -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
which works.

If preg_split is supposed to be Perl Compatible (as in PCRE) then this behavior ought to be changed to match Perl's split() by default:

By default, empty leading fields are preserved, and empty trailing ones are deleted.  (If all fields are empty, they are considered to be trailing.)

Not sure if this is a PHP bug, a PCRE bug, or a feature.
 
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