Re: Programming question

> At 02:13 PM 8/2/2001 +0200, jeroen@php.net wrote: > All zval strings in PHP *have* to be null-terminated even if the string > contains binary data and nulls. So yes, you can assume that it will always > be null-terminated, however, if your function is binary safe (which in most > cases it should be) then you should work with the string's length and not > the null-termination. Yes, that's what I meant. Some (most?) PHP_API functions allow the length specified to be zero, and then look for the next NULL-byte. This only goes well if PHP-strings are always NULL-terminated (NULLs within are not relevant in this case). Thanks for clearing this up. Jeroen