Bug #61958 [NEW]: Trailing linebreak ignored

From: Operating system: Linux, Windows 7 PHP version: 5.3.12 Package: PCRE related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Trailing linebreak ignored Description: ------------ I want to check if a string is a single wordcharacter but even it has a trailing linebreak preg_match() returns 1. Test script: --------------- echo preg_match('~^\w$~', "a\n"); Expected result: ---------------- 0 Actual result: -------------- 1 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61958&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61958&r=mysqlcfg