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Bug #20206 escape the escape char in preg_replace
Submitted: 2002-10-31 21:38 UTC Modified: 2002-11-01 03:36 UTC
From: tea at softhome dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Regular Expressions
PHP Version: 4.2.2 OS: win2k sp3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-10-31 21:38 UTC] tea at softhome dot net 
let say:
$_SESSION["l"] = 'c/c++';
$_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\/","\/",$_SESSION["l"]);
$_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\+","\+",$_SESSION["l"]);

what i expect is no matter how the user reload the page
$_SESSION["l"] should be 'c\/c\+\+'
i used the reg exp in perl and tried it out, seems logically correct, but it cause an error in my php page.

thx for your attention

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 [2002-11-01 01:43 UTC] tea at softhome dot net 
sorry, a typo in the second line of code
$_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\//","\/",$_SESSION["l"]);

i missed a '/'.
 [2002-11-01 01:46 UTC] tea at softhome dot net 
line 3 also....
missed a '/' :(

$_SESSION["l"] = 'c/c++';
$_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\//","\/",$_SESSION["l"]);
$_SESSION["l"] = preg_replace("/\\*\+/","\+",$_SESSION["l"]);
 [2002-11-01 03:36 UTC] moriyoshi@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

Check your regex pattern again. Two leading backslashes will escape "*".
 
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