Re: Null character as field seperator in a string.

On Monday 29 April 2002 18:26, Dave MacRae wrote: > For historic reasons, I have a file that contains a number of records in > which the fields are seperated by the NULL character, i.e, > > field1\0field2\0field3\0field4 > > I need to parse out the fields from this string. > > The string is read into the program using > > $buffer = fgets(...). > > This would be no problem in Perl or C but I cannot get this to work in PHP. > > I have tried using > > preg_split("/\0/", $buffer); > > But this fails. I've tried walking through the string but it seems that > $buffer only has the content up to the first NULL character. Try using fread() to get your file (it's binary safe). Then use: explode(chr(0), $buffer); to separate your fields. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. -- Aristotle */