note 77983 added to function.preg-match-all

Seems preg_match_all() got some kind of size limitation. I was just trying to match with simple pattern like: <foo>(.*)</foo>. But I was unable to make it work, even there's hardly a way to make this pattern wrong. The key seems to be in the size of the one block that matches -> all what between foo tags was about 1600 lines of text and 160KB total. I am unable to find anything about this bug/feature. PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Aug 30 2007 07:06:31) ---- Server IP: 195.136.184.34 Probable Submitter: 81.190.127.69 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77983 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77983 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77983 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php