Bug #13866 Updated: strtok() parses erroneously empty substrings - PHP 4.0.7RC2

ID: 13866 Updated by: jmoore Reported By: rcpj@panix.com Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Strings related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: fixed in CVS Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-29 17:32:55] rcpj@panix.com NOTE, the PHP version is reported as 4.0.7RC2 but that's not in the predefined list on the form. ------ The function strtok() misparses strings where some fields are empty, such as #1 and #4 in the list below, 1|carrot||(no adjective) 2|pepper|red|(adjective) 3|pepper|green|(adjective) 4|tomato||(no adjective) 5|apricot|dried|(adjective) Compare the output of the test program (the code is listed below) running (under PHP 4.0.7RC2) at: http://www.web-ho.com/PHP/test-module.php versus the same program (under PHP 4.0.3pl1) at: http://www.pierrejelenc.com/PHP/test-module.php Both the Apache module and the CGI version in /usr/local/bin/php are affected. ============== test-module.php ============= <?php $Item=file("test-data"); for ($i=0; $i<count($Item);$i++) { $Number=strtok(chop($Item[$i]),"|"); $Name=strtok("|"); $Type=strtok("|"); $Comment=strtok("|"); print("$Type $Name: line #$Number $Comment<br>\n"); } ?> </body></html> =========================================== I am not in charge of program maintenance on either system, but I am the webmaster for several sites there. I was encouraged by the administrator of the machine on which web-ho.com is located to report this myself. Cheers, Pierre Jelenc rcpj@panix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13866&edit=1