Bug #9309 Updated: update ereg function to return booleans instead of 0/1

ID: 9309 Updated by: jimw@php.net Reported By: krssak@upc.uniba.sk -Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: debian linux PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 New Comment: ereg() does return false when no matches are made, or the length of the match. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-02-16 23:19:24] andre@php.net a) in fact is does return 1 and 0, that isn't exactly true and false in php 4 anymore, either documentation or regex code needs a small update... moving to change request b) your problem is another, your regex is wrong, try echoing your pattern before passing it to ereg() and you will see that php ate up your brackets (eg. [0-9]2) it should read like this: if (!ereg('([0-9]{'.$id_size.'})',"$id_usr")){ echo "Error ID"; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-02-16 18:35:03] krssak@upc.uniba.sk $id_size=strlen($id_usr); if (!ereg("([0-9]{$id_size})",$id_usr)){ echo "Error ID"; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=9309&edit=1