note 40325 added to ref.pcre

Damned PHP! Sorry. One can determine by no way, whether regular expression matching empty string matches or not. preg_match('/a(.?)b/', 'ab', $match); // $match[1] is set and empty preg_match('/a(.?)c|a(.?)b/', 'ab', $match); // $match[1] is set and empty There is no difference! As an example, similar code on Perl: 'ab' =~ /a(.?)b/; # $1 is defined and equals empty string 'ab' =~ /a(.?)c|a(.?)b/ # $1 is undefined Does it mean "Perl-compartible"? I think, no. If anyone knows a solution, please send me e-mail. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+40325 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+40325&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+40325&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php