PHP 4.0 Bug #6504 Updated: Explode and split misbehave if multiple separators without values

ID: 6504 Updated by: sniper Reported By: sami@iqs.fi Status: Closed Bug Type: *General Issues Assigned To: Comments: No feedback. Can not reproduce. --Jani Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-02 22:52:13] sniper@php.net I can not reproduce this using php4.0.3-dev (latest CVS) in RH6.2 and compiled as CGI. --Jani --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-02 14:33:19] sami@iqs.fi I have a script that reads tab separated values from a file. It seems that if the file contains multiple tabs without data in between, explode and split return the second tab as the first character of the next string. E.g: $str = "texttsome moretteven more"; $vals = explode("t", $str); and you get $vals = array("text", "some more", "teven more"); I would, of course, expect to get $vals = array("text", "some more", "", "even more"); This is very annoying, I need to first replace every "tt" with something like "t t" and then check if some of the values is " " and convert it into "". The same behaviour is found in split(). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=6504