#48196 [NEW]: Reproducible bug in string concatenation after calling preg_match_all

From: saulo_gil at argentina dot com Operating system: Windows XP PHP version: 5.3.0RC2 PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Bug description: Reproducible bug in string concatenation after calling preg_match_all Description: ------------ If I try to perform a simple concatenation involving a variable created from the matches output of preg_match_all() the resulting string is borked. Please see the code above. What I want to do: echo "[" . $var . "]"; Reproduce code: --------------- <? function foo($s) { preg_match_all("/PROCEDURE (.*)/i", $s, $matches); $name = (string) $matches[1][0]; echo $name . "\n"; return "[" . $name . "]"; } $s = "use providers go ALTER PROCEDURE SPD_EXECUTIVE_PROVIDER_DEALER ( @EXECUTIVE_PROVIDER_ID KEY_ID, @USER_SESSION_ID ID ) /* Procedimiento : SPD_EXECUTIVE_PROVIDER_DEALER"; echo foo($s); ?> Expected result: ---------------- [SPD_EXECUTIVE_PROVIDER_DEALER] Actual result: -------------- ]SPD_EXECUTIVE_PROVIDER_DEALER -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48196&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48196&r=mysqlcfg