Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60903&edit=1
ID: 60903
Updated by: ni...@php.net
Reported by: gohanman at gmail dot com
Summary: preg_match + operator fails with string exceeding
length 18
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
-Package: PCRE related
+Package: Regexps related
Operating System: Ubuntu
PHP Version: 5.3.9
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
This is not a PHP bug. Your regex is written somewhat inefficiently (and
doesn't do what you expect it to) and thus seems to quickly hit the
backtracking limit. Btw, I can't repro it on 5.3, only 5.2.
What you actually wanted to write is
/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$/i (not
the \.).
By the way, we encourage you to use filter_var with FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL
instead of a custom regex. Custom solutions usually are much too restrictive
and disallow many valid emails.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-01-27 20:54:10] fel...@php.net
Are you really using 5.3.9 with the built-in PCRE library?
Your test case works just fine here.
If it returns false, you can check preg_last_error() and adjust the INI
configuration accordingly. About crashing, it's known behavior from PCRE
library, take a look at the PCRE documentation for more information.
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[2012-01-27 15:50:53] gohanman at gmail dot com
Description:
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I'm trying to validate email addresses via regular expression. My regular
expression fails if the first domain portion is longer than 18 characters.
Overall string length does not seem relevant. Decreasing the length of the user
portion or TLD does not make a 19+ character domain portion work.
Test script:
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function is_email($str){
if(preg_match("/^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,4})$/i",
$str))
return True;
return False;
}
var_dump(is_email("u...@123456789012345678.com"));
var_dump(is_email("u...@1234567890123456789.com"));
Expected result:
----------------
bool(true);
bool(true);
Actual result:
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bool(true);
bool(false);
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