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Bug #73947 preg_match() behavior change
Submitted: 2017-01-16 13:48 UTC Modified: 2017-01-16 13:56 UTC
From: thekid@php.net Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: master-Git-2017-01-16 (snap) OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2017-01-16 13:48 UTC] thekid@php.net
Description:
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Optional patterns, if not matched, seem to return NULL instead of empty strings in certain situations.

Test script:
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var_dump([preg_match("!([a-z]+)://([^@]+@)?([a-z]+)!", "http://domain", $matches), $matches]);

Expected result:
----------------
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  int(1)
  [1]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(13) "http://domain"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "http"
    [2]=>
    string(0) ""
    [3]=>
    string(6) "domain"
  }
}


Actual result:
--------------
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  int(1)
  [1]=>
  array(4) {
    [0]=>
    string(13) "http://domain"
    [1]=>
    string(4) "http"
    [2]=>
    NULL
    [3]=>
    string(6) "domain"
  }
}


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