Re: Binary to ASCII

Handy function for this sort of stuff: http://ircphp.com/users/imho/?file=function.hexview.php "René fournier" <m5@renefournier.com> wrote in message news:44B05AA1-A2D5-11D8-91FF-0003931DAC94@renefournier.com... > When reading from a Socket Server, my Socket Client retrieves data that > includes ASCII and binary data: > > while(($buf = socket_read($socket,128,PHP_BINARY_READ)) !== false) { > $data .= $buf; > if(preg_match("/ENX/", $data)) break; > } > echo "RESPONSE: ".$data."\n"; > > The output looks like: > RESPONSE: STX&The system is up and running.ENX > > Between the "STX" and "The system is up..." are 8 bytes of binary data > (which this case appear as an ampersand), which I want to extract from > $data, split into two 4 byte variables, and convert back into integers. > I suspect that I need unpack() at some point, but any ideas how to > extract and split the binary data from this string? (Sometimes, the > binary data is not visible, but it's still there.) > > ...Rene > > PS. Thanks guys for the earlier advice with pack()--which worked.