note 55290 deleted from function.ereg by nlopess

Note Submitter: ---- Beware that eregs in PHP4 are broken, for instance if you want to match "a to z, 0,9 and -" you might want to use [a-z0\-9] but it will silently fail due to a bug : the \ don't escape some special chars, so this regexp is equivalent to [a-z0-9] ! Also putting \[ or \] inside the brackets (to match for a bracket) doesn't work, or raises an error, but curiously putting the \- at the end works. So if you want to match '[a-z\|\[\]]' you have to type '([a-z]|\-|\[\|])' This isn't a misplaced bug report : I put this here so other users don't lose a few hours like I did tracking it down. Workaround : use preg, you'll be faster learning the preg syntax than trying to make ereg work by tweaking the expression.