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Request #55241 return proper FALSE value when mb_substr parameters are not computable
Submitted: 2011-07-19 11:59 UTC Modified: 2011-07-22 04:41 UTC
From: netmosfera at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: mbstring related
PHP Version: 5.4.0alpha2 OS: any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-07-19 11:59 UTC] netmosfera at gmail dot com
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hi, it is possible to make mb_substr work exactly like substr?

substr("",0,10) // returns false
mb_substr("",0,10) // returns ""

substr("abc",7,1) // returns false
mb_substr("abc",7,1) // returns ""

thank you


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 [2011-07-20 05:11 UTC] lonnyk at gmail dot com
This was taken care of in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28899

If you turn on mbstring.func_overload mb_substr will return false. Otherwise it 
returns ""
 [2011-07-20 05:12 UTC] lonnyk at gmail dot com
Bug #28899 was committed in Rev.#203546
 [2011-07-20 05:24 UTC] netmosfera at gmail dot com
yes but no one uses mbstring overload
in plus it is nearly-always not available on hosts, because it can't be enabled per-dir (read: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51415)
so i think this should be fixed
 [2011-07-22 04:41 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-07-22 04:41 UTC] cataphract@php.net
Works as designed. The fact substr and mb_substr do not have the same behavior does not mean one of the is wrong. Besides, there would be compatibility issues in changing the behavior of one of them.
 
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