[2007-07-24 20:42 UTC] iknowatim at yahoo dot com

Description:
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JSON Version 1.2.1

The following program causes PHP to exit with a segmentation fault:

<?php

json_decode("\"");

?>

Instead, it should fail gracefully ("\"" is not valid JSON) and return NULL.

The <a href="http://www.json.org/JSON_checker/">JSON checker</a> correctly reports that it is invalid input: 
"syntax error at character 0"


Reproduce code:
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<?php

print_r(json_decode("\""));

?>

Expected result:
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NULL

Actual result:
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)

 [2007-07-24 23:02 UTC] bjori@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

FYI: Your expected result is wrong, PHP allows you to "decode" non-valid JSON data:
json_decode("foo"); // string(3) "foo"
json_decode('"'); // string(1) """