Re: unpack() big endian signed long?
| From: | Floor Terra | Date: | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:14:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: unpack() big endian signed long? | ||
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On Jan 23, 2008 9:57 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 3:38 PM, Floor Terra <floort@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to use unpack() to read a big endian signed long
> > on a little endian machine?
> > http://nl.php.net/pack refers to perl, on wich this
> > function is based.
> > The php function unpack() doesn't seem to support the "<" and
> > ">"
> > modifiers like perl does.
>
>
> did you see this in the comments on that page?
>
Yes.
I guess I'm stuck with manual byte reversing.
Someone at ##php on freenode.org told me it is possible, but didn't tell me
how.
It seems like an obvious feature.
Thanks for your time.
Floor Terra