From: laurent at 2mx dot fr Operating system: Debian 4.0 etch PHP version: 5.2.4 PHP Bug Type: PCRE related Bug description: PHP 5.2.3 and 5.2.4 preg_match will fail to match strings exceeding 480 chars
Description: ------------ PHP 5.2.3 and 5.2.4 preg_match will fail to match strings exceeding 480 chars while it is working correctly with php 5.2.0 I'm using the bundled PCRE library I have change the pcre.backtrack_limit but it didn't fix the problem This is the same behavior with preg_replace_callback: the call back function doesn't get called. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $regex = ';^<code(\s[^>]*)?>((?:(?R)|.)*?)\n</code>(\s|$);msi'; $texte = ' <code type="php"> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa </code> '; echo preg_match($regex, $texte); ?> Expected result: ---------------- preg_match should return 1 Actual result: -------------- preg_match return 0 on php 5.2.4 and 5.2.3 while I'm expecting 1 return 1 on php 5.2.0 -> OK If I remove one char "a" on the last line preg_match return 0 on php 5.2.4 and 5.2.3 -> OK return 1 on php 5.2.0 -> OK -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42543&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42543&r=mysqlcfg