Bug #65568 [Opn->Nab]: parse_ini_file() and INI_SCANNER_RAW breaks with newlines

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65568&edit=1 ID: 65568 Updated by: ab@php.net Reported by: kristo at waher dot net Summary: parse_ini_file() and INI_SCANNER_RAW breaks with newlines -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Strings related Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 5.5.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php What's exactly the issue you can't use it without INI_SCANNER_RAW? With it the parser has no chance to recognize where the value ends, except each value is per line. Consider this: name=thomas moore age=42 Should it give an error at the line 2 already or should it consider the line 3 as the continuation of the 'name' item value? Same logic as CSV. Without INI_SCANNER_RAW it's clear name="thomas moore" age=42 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-08-28 06:29:23] kristo at waher dot net Description: ------------ parse_ini_file() works correctly if INI_SCANNER_RAW is not used. However once it is used then newlines throw errors in code and make it impossible to store any newline-including strings in INI files. It's said that if you want to use newlines in your INI, you must enclose in double-quotes. This is true, but not if you use INI_SCANNER_RAW option. Since the alternative of not using INI_SCANNER_RAW is not an option (due to how it converts some strings and values), this is a bug and should be fixed. Test script: --------------- INI: name="thomas moore"; SCRIPT: parse_ini_file('test.ini',false,INI_SCANNER_RAW); Expected result: ---------------- no error Actual result: -------------- Warning: syntax error, unexpected '"' in test.ini on line 2 in \test.php on line 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65568&edit=1