Re: RE: How to make binary strings useful?

Jerry Miller wrote: > Here's the code (with the domain name removed) > that doesn't work, "despite" the poor documentation > of the variable types: > > <? > $dir = "/home/<domain_name>/www/binary/"; > $dh = opendir ($dir); > do > { > $file = readdir ($dh); > } > while (!strncmp ($file, ".", 1)); > $filename = sprintf ("%s%s", $dir, $file); > $fh = fopen ($filename, "r"); > $cont = fread ($fh, 4); > echo "file:<BR>"; > echo $filename; > echo "<BR>cont:<BR>"; > printf ("%02x %02x %02x %02x", $cont{0}, $cont{1}, $cont{2}, > $cont{3}); > fclose ($fh); > closedir ($dh); > ?> > > Here's the output of "od -c glance_date" up to the fourth byte: > > 0000000 177 E L F > > All four bytes are non-zero! http://us4.php.net/language.types.type-juggling -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm