From 68caa3667e4109a693948a7c88abf58ef3f69b84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hartmut Holzgraefe <hholzgra@php.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:32:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ereg will now return real match count instead of a fixed-size
 10 element array

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@64733 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 functions/regex.xml | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/functions/regex.xml b/functions/regex.xml
index 505f90f907..60d48b3ae6 100644
--- a/functions/regex.xml
+++ b/functions/regex.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.32 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.33 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.regex">
   <title>Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)</title>
   <titleabbrev>Regexps</titleabbrev>
@@ -128,16 +128,18 @@ $string = ereg_replace ("\n", "", $string);
      which starts at the first left parenthesis; $regs[2] will contain
      the substring starting at the second, and so on. $regs[0] will
      contain a copy of the complete string matched.
-    </simpara>
-    <simpara>
-     If <function>ereg</function> finds any matches at all, $regs will
-     be filled with exactly ten elements, even though more or fewer
-     than ten parenthesized substrings may actually have matched.
-     This has no effect on <function>ereg</function>'s ability to
-     match more substrings. If no matches are found, $regs will not be
-     altered by <function>ereg</function>.
-    </simpara>
-    <simpara>
+    </simpara>	
+		<note>
+		 <simpara>
+			Up to (and including) PHP 4.1.0 <literal>$regs</literal> will be
+			filled with exactly ten elements, even though more or fewer than
+			ten parenthesized substrings may actually have matched. This has
+			no effect on <function>ereg</function>'s ability to match more
+			substrings. If no matches are found, <literal>$regs</literal>
+			will not be altered by <function>ereg</function>. 
+		 </simpara>
+		</note>    
+		<simpara>
      Searching is case sensitive.
     </simpara>
     <simpara>