Bug #71199 [Com]: PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY gives wrong result

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71199&edit=1 ID: 71199 Comment by: inefedor at gmail dot com Reported by: g dot statkute at gmail dot com Summary: PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY gives wrong result Status: Open Type: Bug Package: PCRE related Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 5.5.30 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The third parameter of preg_split is $limit. The right way to call it would be preg_split("/[;,\.]+/", $keyw, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-12-22 18:27:25] g dot statkute at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.preg-split --- Test script: --------------- $keyw=" some, string,,, separaed by many ... different ; ; ;separators"; $searchArr = preg_split( "/[;,\.]+/", $keyw ,PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY ); print_r($searchArr); gives: Array ( [0] => some, string,,, separated by many ... different ; ; ;separators ) Expected result: ---------------- Array ( [0] => some [1] => string [2] => separated by many [3] => different [4] => separators ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( [0] => some, string,,, separated by many ... different ; ; ;separators ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71199&edit=1