From: jay at phpcourses dot ca Operating system: all PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: POSIX regex are important
Description: ------------ why is PHP deprecating the pervasive, very important POSIX regex support? nearly every script i have ever written and/or taught in the past 8 years uses posix regex, and now it will ALL be useless? my customers will be disappointed and their code won't work. just LEAVE THE POSIX REGEX ALONE. Reproduce code: --------------- ereg('posix') Expected result: ---------------- success Actual result: -------------- the single worst mistake php has ever made -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49594&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49594&r=mysqlcfg