Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5833 Updated: ereg_replace fails to use correct variable type

BD>> I don't exactly know how php solves its dynamic type casting, BD>> but it should be so that $i= 3; would succeed IS_LONG and not BD>> IS_STRING. Is it so difficult to add a IS_STRING check to the BD>> ereg-functions? php is just not the language to default to BD>> binary encoding... No, it isn't hard. But this would break backward-compatibility (the sacred cow of PHP :) You can solve it pretty easily - just write "$i" instead $i. Though, I believe it certainly should be documented. -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665 ext.106