PHP 4.0 Bug #10111: e modifier alters string extraction in preg_replace

From: gcousin@startem.net Operating system: Linux Debian PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Bug description: e modifier alters string extraction in preg_replace A short example : $newsitem = preg_replace('/(<([a-zA-Z-]+) ([^>]*)analyze="[0-9]*"([^>]*)>)(.*?)(<\/\\2>)/mse', "'\\1'.transformNewsitemPart('\\5').'\\6'", $newsitem); where I transform the text between any html tag with "analyze" attribute. The problem is that the preg_replace function with e modifier adds backslashes before any " in the matched text (\\5) BEFORE the function transformNewsitemPart is interpreted. The behaviour is new in php 4.0.4. It was not present in php 4.0.3. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10111&edit=1