PHP 4.0 Bug #8472: calling a function in a regular expression

From: simon.southwood@sportal.net Operating system: rh 6.02 PHP version: 4.0.0 PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Bug description: calling a function in a regular expression function image($arrayRef) { $arrayRef += 5; return $arrayRef; } $html="<%image1%>some junk in here<%image2%>even more junk in here<%image3%>and some more for good measure<%image4%> print(image("34")); $pat="%image([0-9])%"; $rep="fdg".image("\\1"); $html=ereg_replace($pat, $rep, $html); /* the function works fine if "$arrayRef += 5;" is commented out (it returns exactly whatever "\\1" is. it also works fine when called with either a string or an integer as argument, called outside the regexp function. however, inside the regexp it always returns 5. i dunno if this is a bug, if not then i do apologise, and i'll find another way of doing this. */ -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8472&edit=1