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Bug #33754 The ereg function does not accept [:alpha:] as representing [a-zA-Z]
Submitted: 2005-07-18 19:05 UTC Modified: 2005-07-18 21:15 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: bryan at phprogrammer dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Regexps related
PHP Version: 4.3.11 OS: llinux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-07-18 19:05 UTC] bryan at phprogrammer dot com
Description:
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It also ignores all the rest of the metacharacters [:space:] [:alnum:] [:digit:] and so on

Reproduce code:
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<?
  if(ereg("[:digit:]", "1234", $regs))
  {
    print "true";
  }
  else
  {
    print "false";
  }
?>

Expected result:
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true

Actual result:
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false

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 [2005-07-18 21:15 UTC] sniper@php.net
It should be like this:

if(ereg("[[:digit:]]", "1234", $regs))
..
 
 
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