Could this be a PHP 4.3.6 "feature"?

[Phil Powell]

[PHP]
echo "val = $val<P>";
list($mySection , $myDisplay) = explode('|', $val);
echo "mySection = $mySection and myDisplay = $myDisplay<P>";
[/PHP]

In using PHP 4.3.6 here are my results:

val = image|Image Maintenance

mySection = image and myDisplay = image

I narrowed down the problem to this:

[PHP]
$blahArray = explode('|', $val);
print_r($blahAr ray);
$blahArray = split('|', $val);
print_r($blahAr ray);
[/PHP]

Nothing prints out, the array $blahArray is never set, not even to an
empty array. No error messages nor warnings result in this.

Has anyone had any similar problems with PHP 4.3.6 or am I just the
"lucky one"? If so, is this an undocumented bug in 4.3.6 (all I could
find in www.php.net was that there was a negative limit to explode()
).

I am unable myself to bounce the webserver as I do not have [yet] the
privileges to do so to figure if that might be a requirement, so until
the system admins have the time to do so (takes a minute *sigh*) I am
trying to cover all possible angles to this rather wacky problem.

Phil

[rush]

Re: Could this be a PHP 4.3.6 &quot;feature&q uot;?

"Phil Powell" <soazine@erols. com> wrote in message
news:1cdca2a7.0 407260815.76308 879@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> [PHP]
> echo "val = $val<P>";
> list($mySection , $myDisplay) = explode('|', $val);
> echo "mySection = $mySection and myDisplay = $myDisplay<P>";
> [/PHP][/color]

hmm.. it would sound very strange that such bug exists. Just to be sure that
there are no funny things in $val, could you try this snippet:

[PHP]
$val = "image|Imag e Maintenance";
echo "val = $val<P>";
list($mySection , $myDisplay) = explode('|', $val);
echo "mySection = $mySection and myDisplay = $myDisplay<P>";
[/PHP]

rush
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[Jeffrey Silverman]

Re: Could this be a PHP 4.3.6 &quot;feature&q uot;?

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:15:54 -0700, Phil Powell wrote:
[color=blue]
> I narrowed down the problem to this:
>
> [PHP]
> $blahArray = explode('|', $val);
> print_r($blahAr ray);
> $blahArray = split('|', $val);
> print_r($blahAr ray);
> [/PHP]
>
> Nothing prints out, the array $blahArray is never set, not even to an
> empty array. No error messages nor warnings result in this.[/color]

For me (although I must admit, I am running PHP 4.3.7), the OP code, when
converted to "real" PHP code as follows, works for me:

<!-- =============== ======= -->
<pre>
<?
$val = "image|Imag e Maintenance";
$blahArray = explode('|', $val);
print_r($blahAr ray);
$blahArray = split('|', $val);
print_r($blahAr ray);
?>
</pre>
<!-- =============== ======= -->

(<pre> tags just there to help with formatting the output)

But I do get an error:

Warning: split(): REG_EMPTY in /home/jeff/public_html/testsplit.php on
line 13

That is the last line, with the split() func. But to fix that, split
needs regex delimiters like so:

$blahArray = split('/|/', $val);

(Note the slashes "/" around the pipe)


later...
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[Jeffrey Silverman]

Re: Could this be a PHP 4.3.6 &quot;feature&q uot;?

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:43:49 -0400, Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
[color=blue]
> That is the last line, with the split() func. But to fix that, split
> needs regex delimiters like so:
>
> $blahArray = split('/|/', $val);
>
> (Note the slashes "/" around the pipe)[/color]

Ooops!! I spoke wrongly about split()!

You need to ESCAPE the pipe with a backslash in split(), NOT provide regex
delimiters!

Corrected code:
$blahArray = split('\|', $val);


later...

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