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Bug #9265 passing preg_split a limit parameter of 0 supresses all matches
Submitted: 2001-02-14 16:33 UTC Modified: 2001-02-19 14:31 UTC
From: chuck at horde dot org Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (14/02/2001) OS: Linux 2.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2001-02-14 16:33 UTC] chuck at horde dot org
Somewhere in the last few weeks, preg_split changed so that specifiying a limit parameter of 0 returns the string to be split unchanged. Before that, 0 was seemingly treated as no limit, meaning that you could safely specify 0 as the limit argument in order to specify a flag as the fourth argument.

<?php

$foo = 'a|b|c|d';
$m = preg_split('/|/', $foo, 0);

var_dump($m);

?>

will return everything in the same array, whereas if the limit argument is left off (or increased), the string gets split up. The behavior allowing 0 to be no limit should be returned, or another safe argument for limit that means no limit documented.

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 [2001-02-19 14:31 UTC] andrei@php.net
As far as I remember, 0 has never meant "no limit" - the value for that is -1. But the documentation does need to be updated.
 
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