Bug #17957 Updated: Empty backreferences broken

ID: 17957 Updated by: john@scl.co.uk Reported By: john@scl.co.uk -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Bug Type: Regexps related Operating System: Linux 2.2.19 PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Tried it with 4.3.0-dev downloaded from CVS this morning and result is same. (Not sure if this is same as http://snaps.php.net?) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-25 07:02:47] sander@php.net Can you try the latest snapshot from http://snaps.php.net, I think this has been fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-24 18:08:45] john@scl.co.uk <? echo ereg_replace("^(a*)",'\1','a')."\n"; echo ereg_replace("^(a*)",'\1','b')."\n"; echo ereg_replace("^(a)*",'\1','a')."\n"; echo ereg_replace("^(a)*",'\1','b')."\n"; ?> produces: a b a \1b should produce: a b a b './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/lib' '--with-curl' '--with-pdflib=shared' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-pcre' '--with-dom' '--with-pear' '--with-xml=shared' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-debug=no' '--enable-safe-mode' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-regex=system' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17957&edit=1