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Bug #41077 Order may matter between brackets when using ereg()
Submitted: 2007-04-13 15:07 UTC Modified: 2007-05-18 15:06 UTC
From: aeolianmeson at blitzeclipse dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Regexps related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: 2000 Server
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-04-13 15:07 UTC] aeolianmeson at blitzeclipse dot com 
Description:
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I needed to add a dash to a character class, so I appended it to the present character class definition. It turns out that it wouldn't accept unless I moved it to the middle.

Reproduce code:
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// This works.
// $reg = "^[[:alnum:]_\.\-]+@[[:alnum:]_\.\-]+$";

// This does not work. The only difference 
// is the order of the last two accepted 
// characters in the first character class.

$reg = "^[a-z0-9_\-\.]+@[[:alnum:]_\.\-]+$";

var_dump(ereg($reg, 'ab-c@def.com'));

Expected result:
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Does match.

Actual result:
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Does not match.

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 [2007-04-13 16:25 UTC] johannes@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

Read about strings with double quotes. The \\ won\'t be seen by the regexp engine.
 [2007-05-09 05:02 UTC] aeolianmeson at blitzeclipse dot com 
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to. I can use the exact same pattern with preg successfully. Can you confirm, or provide me a specific URL to clarify your explanation?

Consider the following, where preg returns true and ereg returns false:

$strEmail = "abc@def-.com";
	
$strReg = "^[a-z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[a-z0-9_\-\.]+$";
var_dump(eregi($strReg, $strEmail));

$strReg = "/^[a-z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-z0-9_\-\.]+\.[a-z0-9_\-\.]+$/i";
var_dump(preg_match($strReg, $strEmail));

Thanks :) .

Dustin Oprea
 [2007-05-18 15:06 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Use PCRE functions.
I don't think anybody is going to maintain deprecated ereg() functions in the nearest future.
 
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