PHP 4.0 Bug #7555: flatfile dbmfetch loses first char if datum length exceeds 9 chars

From: yoshinori.kawahara@compaq.com Operating system: NT4 SP4 PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: *Database Functions Bug description: flatfile dbmfetch loses first char if datum length exceeds 9 chars <? $db = dbmopen('req.db', "n"); $in = "1234567890"; dbminsert($db, "ID", $in); $out = dbmfetch($db, "ID"); dbmclose($db); echo "in -$in-\n"; echo "out -$out-\n"; ?> am using the distribution "Win32 Binaries packaged as zip" from http://www.php3.org/downloads.php filename : php-4.0.3pl1-Win32.zip save code as say db.php3 run in dos window to exclude interference from webserver d:\tmp>\php\php.exe db.php3 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1 Content-type: text/html in -1234567890- out -234567890- As you can see the first char is dropped. For anything up to 9 chars everythings OK. More than 9, first char is dropped. Tried using all alhpa strings, same behaviour. Looked at req.db flat file database, everything looks ok there. 2<nl> ID10<nl> 1234567890 -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7555&edit=1