note 50484 added to function.eregi-replace

PHP's Regex engine differs from several others in its treatment of parsing spaces. In many Regex languages '\s' denotes a space. PHP does not recognize '\s', just type a space ' ' instead. This simple example illustrates the problem: <?php $string = "A sentence with spaces"; if (eregi("with\s*spaces", $string)) { // Will never print echo "PHP understood \s"; } else { // Will always print echo "PHP doesn't understand \s"; } ?> This example does work: <?php $string = "A sentence with spaces"; if (eregi("with *spaces", $string)) { // Will print echo "PHP understood ' '"; } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50484 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50484&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50484&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50484&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50484&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50484&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50484&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php