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Bug #46664 preg_match returns false negative on > 100 kB strings for some patterns
Submitted: 2008-11-25 12:08 UTC Modified: 2008-11-25 12:20 UTC
From: patrik dot hirvinen at nemein dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Regular Expressions
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Mac OS X 10.5
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-11-25 12:08 UTC] patrik dot hirvinen at nemein dot com
Description:
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preg_match fails for some patterns when the searched string exceeds around 100300 bytes. It matches for same strings if enough text is removed from the middle part which gets captured by the pattern when working correctly. Also the exact same regexp works fine for perl on unshortened output.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
//foo.html >= 100 kB
$contents = file_get_contents("foo.html");
$matches = array();
preg_match('%<BODY\s*>.*?</H[1-6]>(.+?)</BODY>%si', $contents, $matches);
//$matches is empty
var_dump($matches);
?>


Expected result:
----------------
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(12935) "/*lots of html*/
}


Actual result:
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array(0) {
}


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 [2008-11-25 12:12 UTC] patrik dot hirvinen at nemein dot com
Also on at least on linux(debian) with PHP 5.2.0-8+etch11
 [2008-11-25 12:20 UTC] scottmac@php.net
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
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visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
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of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
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