note 42794 added to function.eregi

This function is _not_ identical to ereg as it seems. I am running PHP 4.3.6 and trying to do simple thing. <?php if (ereg("^SELECT|SHOW|EXPLAIN|DESCRIBE", $sql)) { //do something - this works } ?> This works ok, but <?php if (eregi("^SELECT|SHOW|EXPLAIN|DESCRIBE", $sql)) { //do something - this won't work } ?> Does not! So far I can tell it is related to the lenght of the string I am checking. eregi works fine for some (short) strings, but it fails to match the pattern with the long strings. This is a dump of my string string(11130) "UPDATE test_data SET uid='1', gid='1', perm='664', data='Some long page body... (cut here)..." The string is cutted for the sake of the example. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42794 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42794&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42794&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php