Re: null character - file related function

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:29, Mark Charette wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Martin Straka wrote: > > > > Is somewhere documented that everything after NULL (0x00 %00) character > > is ignored for example in functions include, fopen etc? > > Interestingly, no, it's not documented in the manual (at least I couldn't > find any official documentation on NULL terminated strings as a definition > when I searched through the official docs). However, strings in PHP follow > the C convention of being NULL terminated. Strings in PHP are binary safe and thus do not rely on null temrination. You can see this via the following example: <? $foo = "supercalifragi..."; $foo{5} = chr( 0 ); echo $foo{4}."\n"; echo $foo{5}."\n"; echo $foo{6}."\n"; Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'