Bug #76861 [NEW]: Delimiter Bug using <

From: christian dot engelbert at googlemail dot com Operating system: Linux 3.13.0-93-generic Ubuntu PHP version: 7.0.31 Package: *Regular Expressions Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Delimiter Bug using < Description: ------------ If the character '<' is used as a delimitier preg_replace forces the character '>' as ending delimiter. '<' is not working in this case. While using '>' as starting delimiter for the RegEx '>' is awaited to be used as the ending delimiter also. Test script: --------------- preg_replace('<p<', '', 'Apple'); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76861&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76861&r=mysqlcfg