Re: unpack question

Thanks. Neat trick with the printf command. I'll use that for now. John > I suppose it is a bug. It seems that all unsigned unpacks dont > honor this, as the documentation on unpack does note. > > I did, however, write a patch that will enable the returning of > unsigned values. It still needs approval and is currently only for > the cvs version of php: > > http://zirzow.dyndns.org/patches/pack.patch > > A work around on this is you'll have to use s/printf() to obtain the > correct unsigned value: > > $array = unpack('Llongvalue', -1); > printf("%lu", $array['longvalue']);