#23219 [NEW]: Cannot use symbols as delimiters

From: lucphp at BrazilianTranslation dot net Operating system: Windows 98 SE PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Bug description: Cannot use symbols as delimiters I have some scripts that use a lot of preg_match and preg_replace. And I use the ¢ symbol as a delimiter because I never used that symbol for anything else in my life, so I never have to worry about escaping it. I would be escaping (and missing) a lot of occurrences if I had been using / or | . I have used these scripts for many months, almost a year. I didn't use them in about a month, maybe a little more, and I don't remember updating/upgrading PHP during that period. But my mind could be deceiving me. Maybe the last time I used them was before I updated PHP to v. 4.3.1. At least I am 100% sure the scripts and my INI file have not been changed. They should be working. Now I try to run my old scripts and, in some of them, PHP gives me some attitude: Warning: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\conversor-folha.php on line 25 Some scripts work, others don't. What can I do to pinpoint the problem? ------------------------ 8< ------------------------ $pattern = '¢(Foi encontrado|Foram encontrados) *<b>[0-9]+</b> *anúncios?.*Clique nos &iacute;cones para adicionar os an&uacute;ncios &agrave; &quot;¢s'; $po = preg_match ($pattern, $x, $matches); ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ Thanks, Luciano ES Santos, SP - Brasil -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23219&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23219&r=gnused