Re: Re: PHP Unicode support design document

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote: > "In order to create binary string literals, a new syntax is necessary: > prefixing a string literal with letter 'b' creates a binary string." > > The b-prefix for binary strings is great, but how does that work with a > function like file_get_contents() or fread() ? > One can't do: $data = bfile_get_contents("somefile.bin"); fopen() and file_get_contents() already understands a context parameter, specifying whethter you'd want to have binary or string/unicode data can be done through that. and the b syntax, only works for literal strings in your code: b"foo", but b$foo is not going to work. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org