Bug #18045: Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':', expecting '}'

From: webmaster@phpindex.com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':', expecting '}' This simple script crash with Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':', expecting '}' in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/armel/crash.php on line 5 <?php $foo = "php"; print "{$foo}"; print "{:$foo}"; print "{$foo:}"; ?> Note that if you comment the last print, it just return php{:php} and not {php}{:php} May be a small problem in the Zend Engine (see T_CURLY_OPEN) : line 695 -> Zend/zend_language_parser.y line 1348 -> Zend/zend_language_scanner.l This bug is reproducible and have been tested with php 4.2.1 (apxs) and 4.2.0 (CGI). Regards, Armel. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18045&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18045&r=globals