Re: unpack on offsets in binary data in variable?

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:20 +0100, Markus Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm searching for an efficient way to use unpack on binary data within a > variable (php 5.1.something). In the past I was doing > > fopen > fseek > unpack( fread(...) > fseek > etc. > > Now this time I need to do the same, but I don't have an actual file: my > data is only in a variable and I don't want to operate on a file but the > variable within. Ummm, you aren't using unpack() on a file in the above example, you're using it on the string returned by fread(). You use unpack() on strings and thus it should work fine when you don't have a file. 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. | `------------------------------------------------------------'