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Bug #876 ereg_replace() and eregi_replace() don't do anything
Submitted: 1998-10-26 12:12 UTC Modified: 1998-10-26 12:15 UTC
From: peter dot lerner at bayreuth dot baynet dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 3.0 Latest CVS (26/10/1998) OS: Linux 2.0.35
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-10-26 12:12 UTC] peter dot lerner at bayreuth dot baynet dot de 
the following code snippet ...

 echo "string = \"" . $string . "\"<br>\n";
 eregi_replace("!", " ", $string);
 echo "string = \"" . $string . "\"<br>\n";

... yields this result:

string = "con ! air"
string = "con ! air"

did i miss something, or is this bad behaviour?
the "!" should have been replaced by <space>.

same with ereg_replace().


ups ... should read doku more thoroughly. must assign ereg_replace() 
result. ;-) sorry.

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 [1998-10-26 12:15 UTC] rasmus 
These functions do not modify the argument string.  They return the new string.  To make the above work, use:
$string = eregi_replace("!"," ",$string);
Note though that if you just want to change a single character you are better off using strtr().
 
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