Bug #52788 [NEW]: preg_match not matching last backslash '\'
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Operating system: ALL
PHP version: 5.3.3
Package: *Regular Expressions
Bug Type: Bug
Bug description:preg_match not matching last backslash '\'
Description:
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preg_match() does not match the last backslash at the end of a subject
string.
I'm using the pattern "#^[^0-9a-zA-Z]*$#" to filter out any characters from
user input other than alphanumerics.
The Problem I'm seeing is if there is a backslash \ as the last character
with valid characters before it, then preg_match() does not match it.
Example input:
\ = matched.
\\ = matched.
a\a = matched.
&@$ = matched.
a\ = not matched.
0\ = not matched.
A\ = not matched.
abc\ = not matched.
etc...
Test script:
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// Obviously taking into account here that backslash \ is an escape char.
// SO double the backslash.
$userInput = "a\\";
if (preg_match("#^[^0-9a-zA-Z]*$#", $userInput))
{
echo "Invalid input";
}
else
{
echo "Good to go!";
}
// If you negate the regular expression to "#^[0-9a-zA-Z]*$#" and change
the
// test statement to be:
// if (!preg_match("#^[0-9a-zA-Z]*$#", $userInput)) {}
// it works as expected.
Expected result:
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Expected result: Invalid input
Actual result:
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Actual result: Good to go!
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- reevsey at gmail dot com