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Bug #22371 ereg_replace moving ! to start of string
Submitted: 2003-02-22 01:22 UTC Modified: 2003-03-09 18:59 UTC
From: phpbugreport at webfroot dot co dot nz Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Regexps related
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-02-22 01:22 UTC] phpbugreport at webfroot dot co dot nz 
Running Apache 1.3 as a service on Windows XP

$text = ereg_replace ("<a[^>]+href *= *([^ ]+)[^>]*>", "<a href=\\1>", $text);

The above line of code is supposed to find all a tags and strip any attributes except href.  However:

$text = "bacon <a href='http://www.whatever.com' title='hello!'>hello</a>";

will be set to:
bacon !<a href='http://www.whatever.com' title='hello'>hello</a>

How in the hell did that exclaim get to the start of the a tag?  Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but it looks like a bug to me.

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 [2003-02-22 14:15 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip

With latest CVS I get:
bacon <a href='http://www.whatever.com'>hello</a>
as the result of the regular expression.
 [2003-03-09 18:59 UTC] sniper@php.net 
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
If this is not the case and you are able to provide the
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change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
 
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