#31631 [NEW]: Long ereg results failure

From: dux at uol dot com dot ar Operating system: Windows 2k PHP version: 5.0.1 PHP Bug Type: POSIX related Bug description: Long ereg results failure Description: ------------ the regex dont find big text matches. i tried to extract tables from a website, and I could extract small tables, but with big ones (40-50 complex rows) it said that nothing was found (missmatch). i hardcode a website where it crashes, so you can check it for yourselves. i tested the code handcutting text from the tables to make them smaller and them was recogniced succefully. Reproduce code: --------------- $file = 'http://ffvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Locations.List&view_page=1'; $content = file_get_contents($file); // here i try to found a table $found = ereg ('<table>[s|^s|'."\n".'|'."\r".']</table>',$html,$regex); echo $regex[0]; Expected result: ---------------- see just a table Actual result: -------------- the table is not found -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31631&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31631&r=mysqlcfg