[pmwiki-devel] Strange bug...

[Dominique Faure]

On 3/26/07, The Editor <editor at fast.st> wrote:
> Someone pointed out a strange bug I was able to fix by changing
>
> $r = str_replace("{$x}", '~*~', $r);
>
> to
>
> $r = str_replace('{'.$x.'}', '~*~', $r);
>
> Evidently the string replacement matched on patterns like {emailbody}
> when $x=email.  It seems it shouldn't match.  Can anyone explain why?
>

http://docs.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing.complex

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Dom