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Author #38999 [NEW]: unknown word
ammacdon at yahoo dot com

2006-09-30, 3:57 am

From: ammacdon at yahoo dot com
Operating system:
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: unknown word

Description:
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bad grammar and a made-up word

Reproduce code:
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http://us3.php.net/preg_replace

"If there are less keys in the replacement array than in the pattern
array, the excedent patterns will be replaced by an empty string."

this sentence does not parse; proper english requires "fewer" instead of
"less". also, i was unable to find a definition to the word(?) "excedent"
in the Oxford American Dictionary. as such, i do not understand what the
sentence means. what are "excedent patterns?"


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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38999&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38999&r=mysqlcfg
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