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Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #7222: ereg_replace, ereg From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ignacio <email protected>)
Date: 10/15/00

On 15 Oct 2000 zibin <email protected> wrote:

> From: zibin <email protected>
> Operating system: unix
> PHP version: 4.0.2
> PHP Bug Type: *Regular Expressions
> Bug description: ereg_replace, ereg
>
> everytime I have a regular expression which have ".*" or "[0-9]*" I get the following error:
>
> Warning: REG_BADRPT in /home/websites/www.gigcenter.com/DB.htmlToPHP3.php3 on line 236
>
> For example:
> if ( eregi("onlyuser\[(.*?)\]",$inside, $regs) ||
>
> if ( eregi("adduser\[(.*?)\]",$inside, $regs) ) {
>
> But this doesn't cause error:
> if ( eregi("authenticate=(.)",$inside, $regs) )
> $authenticate = $regs[1];
>
> if ( eregi("MUST Authenticate",$inside) )
>
>
> thanks for your time.

".*?" is a bad construct. Do you mean "(.\*)?" (optional any char but nl
followed by literal asterisk) or just ".*" (zero or more of any char but
nl)? 

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio <email protected>

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