#49802 [NEW]: Irritating error message when passing irregular arguments for parsing (sprintf)

From: timm dot forallthestuff at web dot de Operating system: Windows 7 PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Irritating error message when passing irregular arguments for parsing (sprintf) Description: ------------ The error message displayed by php is irritating and not describing the problem correcly, when an argument in sprintf is incorrect (%$1s instead of %1$s). PHP Xampp installation, not really changed anything, so should be about the default. Reproduce code: --------------- $string = 'foo %$1s'; var_dump(sprintf($string, 'bar')); --- From manual page: function.sprintf#Parameter-Liste --- Expected result: ---------------- E_WARNING: error while parsing (or similiar) Actual result: -------------- Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Argument number must be greater than zero in -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49802&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49802&r=mysqlcfg