Re: Re: Bug #1683 Updated: Failing to parse/compile a *? pattern.

> Well, it looks like PHP's will do it with one character. Kind of defeats > the idea of collating. > > from regcomp.c function p_b_coll_elem: > > if (len == 1) > return(*sp); /* single character */ > SETERROR(REG_ECOLLATE); /* neither */ > return(0); > > See there at the end it checks if the length is 1 and if it is everything is > hunky dory. Otherwise, it screws ya. I wonder what would happen if that if > was commented out? You'd have a mess on your hands. The whole point of a collating element is to collate down to a single char. It len isn't 1 here, you aren't collating and you definitely have an ECOLLATE error. -Rasmus