Fw: [PHP] Null character as field seperator in a string.

----- Original Message ----- From: "The_RadiX" <the_radix@hotkey.net.au> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Dave MacRae" <dave@datacash.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Null character as field seperator in a string. > Hey.. > > yeah I might.. > > > I don't know if I am right or just blabbering crap > > but try to add these param's to your regex statement.. > > > preg_split("/\0/i", $buffer); > > > note the i.. It should let it read past newlines.. although you're prob is > with null (\0) chars.. > > > as I said.. Don't know if I am on the right track.. but it's worth a go eh?? > > > > > > good luck.. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave MacRae" <dave@datacash.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 8:26 PM > Subject: [PHP] Null character as field seperator in a string. > > > > 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. > > > > Does anyone have a simple solution to this problem. > > > > Regards > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >