Re: [PHP4BETA] ereg_replace update

George Hartz wrote: > The problem definately seems to be a very non-standard way of casting > integers to strings. > > Does anyone actually know if this is a bug, or just the way it works? If > its just the way it works, why is that? It seems very non-standard. ereg_replace() internally checks if the replace argument is a string. If it's not it converts it to a number and then uses it as a character value, which results in the problem you're experiencing. I don't know why it was done that way, and it's not obvious how to fix it, since many programs may depend on this behavior. -Andrey * All of the above is my opinion, unless specified otherwise. *