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Bug #76861 Delimiter Bug using <
Submitted: 2018-09-11 09:37 UTC Modified: 2018-09-11 09:46 UTC
From: christian dot engelbert at googlemail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Regular Expressions
PHP Version: 7.0.31 OS: Linux 3.13.0-93-generic Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-09-11 09:37 UTC] christian dot engelbert at googlemail dot com 
Description:
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If the character '<' is used as a delimitier preg_replace forces the character '>' as ending delimiter. '<' is not working in this case. While using '>' as starting delimiter for the RegEx '>' is awaited to be used as the ending delimiter also.

Test script:
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preg_replace('<p<', '', 'Apple');

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 [2018-09-11 09:41 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2018-09-11 09:41 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.delimiters.php
 [2018-09-11 09:42 UTC] peehaa@php.net
-Status: Not a bug +Status: Open
 [2018-09-11 09:42 UTC] peehaa@php.net 
Several delimiters are special cased:

> It is also possible to use bracket style delimiters where the opening and closing brackets are the starting and ending delimiter, respectively. (), {}, [] and <> are all valid bracket style delimiter pairs. 

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.delimiters.php
 [2018-09-11 09:43 UTC] peehaa@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2018-09-11 09:43 UTC] peehaa@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
 [2018-09-11 09:44 UTC] peehaa@php.net 
Eeeek sorry for reopening.

I got ninja'd on this one.
 [2018-09-11 09:46 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Add that to the list of things to be fixed with the next version of bugs.php.net...
 
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