Re: http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=8409

On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Stig Venaas wrote: > Great, I'll fix the doc. > > I see two problems with the extract() code. You check that the key > is a legal variable name but not that prefix_key is. There are two > problems with this. > > > > $a = array( '1a' => 'b' ) ; > extract($a, EXTR_PREFIX_ALL , 'prefix') ; > > should set $prefix_1a but doesn't since '1a' isn't legal. > > > > and > > > > $a = array( 'a' => 'b' ) ; > echo extract($a, EXTR_PREFIX_ALL , '1prefix') ; > > puts the key (variable) '1prefix_a' into the symbol table. Ok, I'll fix it, but give me a break, extract() was the very first function I wrote, after all. :) -Andrei * I wish life had an UNDO function. *