#19690 [Ana->Csd]: mb_split is broken

ID: 19690 Updated by: moriyoshi@php.net Reported By: jc@mega-bucks.co.jp -Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed Bug Type: mbstring related Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.2 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: After some discussion, extended mode is no more the default for mb_split() and mb_ereg_xxxx(). Instead you can change the default behaivour by this newly introduced function: proto mb_regex_set_options(string options) (Although this is not documented yet... I hope I will soon update them.) Anyway, thank you for the report. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-03 07:26:58] jc@mega-bucks.co.jp I agree. Can this be added to the documentation then? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-02 06:44:14] moriyoshi@php.net oops i forgot to change the status. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-02 06:42:38] moriyoshi@php.net As of current implementation, mb_split() and mb_ereg() take the regex pattern as extended mode one, in which white spaces, carridge returns, and line feeds are ignored and any sequences beginning with "#" and delimitted by "\n" are treated as comments. So if you would like to use these characters in the pattern, you should escape them with a backslash '\'. IMO this implied behaviour is quite confusing, as we are more familiar with split() and preg_split(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-01 13:09:33] moriyoshi@php.net confirmed with HEAD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-01 08:52:38] jc@mega-bucks.co.jp Here are my PHP settings in case you need to see them Multibyte (Japanese) Support enabled multibyte regex support enabled Directive Local Value Master Value mbstring.detect_order auto auto mbstring.func_overload 0 0 mbstring.http_input auto auto mbstring.http_output no value no value mbstring.internal_encoding EUC-JP EUC-JP mbstring.substitute_character no value no value ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/19690 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19690&edit=1