PHP 4.0 Bug #9619: {0,300} returns REG_BADRPT-Warning

From: zong64@firemail.de Operating system: Windows 98 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Bug description: {0,300} returns REG_BADRPT-Warning $regex = "^(.*{0,300}[^ ]*).*$"; $txt = eregi_replace($regex,"\\1",$txt); This Script was written to split a string after 300 lines and the next whitespace. Everytime I use it, it returns the following error: Warning: REG_BADRPT: in f:\www\test.php on line 12 (With PHP4.0.4pl1 and PHP3.?.?) The critical part of the regex is {0,300} Values from {0,1} to {0,99} are no problem. But every Values bigger 99 are returning this error. I tried to split the regex into: $regex = "^(.*{0,50}.*{0,50}.*{0,50}.*{0,50}.*{0,50}.*{0,50}[^ ]*).*$" But with this regex I only get a white page without any output. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=9619&edit=1