Bug #862 Updated: problem in eregi()

ID: 862 Updated by: rasmus Reported By: markjr@easyDNS.com Status: Closed Bug Type: Misbehaving function Assigned To: Comments: You have a number of problems in your regular expressions there. First, there is no such thing as \- and even if there was you would have to write it as \\- because inside a double-quoted string in PHP escape chars are parsed. In order to get the eregi() function to see \- you would have to escape the \ and thus have \\-. That isn't you problem though. I quote from the Extended Regular Expression docs (see regex/regex.7 in the PHP distribution): To include a literal `]' in the list, make it the first character (following a possible `^'). To include a lit- eral `-', make it the first or last character, or the sec- ond endpoint of a range. To use a literal `-' as the first endpoint of a range, enclose it in [.' and .]' to make it a collating element (see below). With the excep- tion of these and some combinations using `[' (see next paragraphs), all other special characters, including `\', lose their special significance within a bracket expres- sion. So, this tells you that you cannot put a '-' in the middle of a range like that. I do not think this is a bug in PHP. PHP's behaviour is entirely consistent with that definition. Full Bug description available at: http://ca.php.net/bugs.php3?id=862 -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net