Req #64530 [Opn]: Missing function to translate shorthand notation to bytes

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64530&edit=1 ID: 64530 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: contact at jfsimon dot fr Summary: Missing function to translate shorthand notation to bytes Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues PHP Version: 5.3.23 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Admittedly, it's not trivial to port zend_atol()[1] to userland; you can get mostly away with using intval($foo, 0) and switching on the last character, but that doesn't cater to stuff like 128 (hey cool, I can leave a comment here!) M what is "perfectly" valid, and is parsed like 128M. In my opinion, this is a bug, but one that we can't easily fix for BC reasons. To cater to that you actually need regexps, so this feature request makes some sense. [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.23/Zend/zend_operators.c#L109-L134> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-27 08:59:08] victor at suumit dot com 'ini_translate_shortand($shorthand)' should translate a shorthand notation to its integer counterpart. This is useful as the process is not as simple as described in the doc @ http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-get.php - the doc needs either to be fixed or at least a warning should be added as not all formats are supported by the given conversion method. The method described in the doc is wrong as octal and hexadecimal values are supported in the shorthand notation (008, 0x10M, ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-27 08:46:00] contact at jfsimon dot fr This took me 4 days and 3 PRs to correctly add this method in Symfony. https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/7456 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/7481 https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/7489 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-27 08:42:31] contact at jfsimon dot fr Description: ------------ It would be really nice to add a 'ini_translate_shortand($shortand)' function as this is a real pain to exactly know how to do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64530&edit=1