Problem with PCRE (preg_replace) and PHP4 Beta 3...

There is either a bug with PCRE or with PHP4 Beta 3... Back references somehow lose their reference after the first occurance. They generally point to nothing or junk... Following is a q&d example of where it gets confused... Haven't yet tried compiling the earlier version of PCRE in yet to see if that that is the problem... Code: <HTML><BODY><PRE> <? $str = "Here is a link <A HREF=\"www.php.net\">PHP</A> and here is another <A HREF=\"www.mha.ca\">mha</A> and here is a third <A HREF=\"www.zend.com\">zend</A>"; echo "Before: $str\n\n"; $str = preg_replace("/(?<!http:\/\/)(www\.\w{0,50}\.\w{2,3})/i","http://\\1",$str); echo "After: $str\n\n"; ?> </PRE></BODY></HTML> Raw Output of PHP4 Beta 2 (pcre 2.05) <HTML><BODY><PRE> <? $str = "Here is a link <A HREF=\"www.php.net\">PHP</A> and here is another <A HREF=\"www.mha.ca\">mha</A> and here is a third <A HREF=\"www.zend.com\">zend</A>"; echo "Before: $str\n\n"; $str = preg_replace("/(?<!http:\/\/)(www\.\w{0,50}\.\w{2,3})/i","http://\\1",$str); echo "After: $str\n\n"; ?> </PRE></BODY></HTML> Raw output of PHP4 Beta 3 (pcre 2.08) <HTML><BODY><CODE> Before: Here is a link <A HREF="www.php.net">PHP</A> and here is another <A HREF="www.mha.ca">mha</A> and here is a third <A HREF="www.zend.com">zend</A> After: Here is a link <A HREF="http://www.php.net">PHP</A> and here is another <A HREF="http://hird <A HR">mha</A> and here is a third <A HREF="http://sion">zend</A> </CODE></BODY></HTML> Kris Erickson MacDonald Harris and Associates www.mha.ca