preg weirdness?

Ok, just to test out the pcre stuff I did a couple of tests: $a="abc"; echo preg_replace("/.*/","X",$a); Here are the results, replacing the regex argument each time: regex expected got /.*/ X XX <== /.+/ X X // <error> XaXbXcX <== /\w/ XXX XXX /^\w+$/ X X /\b/ XabcX XaXbXc <== /^\w*?/ Xabc Xabc /^\w+?/ Xbc Xbc The first one just looks wrong to me. But the behaviour is the same in ereg_replace, so I guess it is correct. I suppose the second surprising one can be explained. It is just sort of funny to think about though. There is exactly 1 nothing before and after every char in the string? Here preg_replace() differs from ereg_replace(). ereg_replace() will throw an error. And the third weird one looks like a bug to me. \b is supposed to be a word boundary. That is, it should match the transition from a \W to a \w and vice versa. I only see two word boundaries like that in the "abc" string. The actual output makes no sense unless the pcre library doesn't understand \b being a word boundary. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net