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Bug #12688 preg_match doesn't return newlines in match array
Submitted: 2001-08-10 02:20 UTC Modified: 2001-08-10 11:21 UTC
From: jax at uia dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Regular Expressions
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: FreeBSD 4.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-08-10 02:20 UTC] jax at uia dot net 
This is not a core dump, but rather an output problem with preg_match.  Here is a short script:

$someline = "Here is some line.\n";
if ( preg_match('/Here(.*)$/',$someline,$matches) ) {
  $out = $matches[1];
}

print "<pre>[$out]</pre>";

$out now contains no newline when this clearly should be included!

--Liam

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 [2001-08-10 08:49 UTC] alindeman@php.net 
add an "s" to the end of your reg exp.

                                           
if (preg_match('/Here(.*)$/s',$someline,$matches)){
                                         ^
                                         
this mean "treat everything as one line" and it will parse the
newline.
 [2001-08-10 10:56 UTC] jax at uia dot net 
Why is this bug bogus?  Isn't it a valid bug when something doesn't Work As Advertised or doesn't Work As Expected?  If these are really perl-compatible regexp functions, this is a real, valid bug.
 [2001-08-10 11:02 UTC] alindeman@php.net 
that is exactly how it works in perl (and I got the answer to
your bug from my Perl book...)
 [2001-08-10 11:21 UTC] jax at uia dot net 
Ahhhh,

Heh, sorry about that.  I verified that they have deprecated $*!  I am too old for this stuff ;)

Thanks!

Eating crow,

--Liam
 
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