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Bug #42207 str_word_count() considers "-" single character as a word
Submitted: 2007-08-04 13:30 UTC Modified: 2007-08-04 14:00 UTC
From: marcelrcavalcante at yahoo dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.2.4RC1 OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-08-04 13:30 UTC] marcelrcavalcante at yahoo dot com dot br 
Description:
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str_word_count() considers "-" single character as a word. Either the itens "--", "---", "----" ...

Reproduce code:
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$words = str_word_count("aaa - bbb-bb -- -ccc ---", 2);
print_r($words);

Expected result:
----------------
Array
(
    [0] => aaa
    [6] => bbb-bb
    [16] => -ccc
)

Actual result:
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Array
(
    [0] => aaa
    [4] => -
    [6] => bbb-bb
    [13] => --
    [16] => -ccc
    [21] => --
)

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 [2007-08-04 14:00 UTC] jani@php.net 
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