Re: Access raw buffer (for binary data)
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:47:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Access raw buffer (for binary data) | ||
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Derick Rethans wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Marco Bambini wrote:That's not really a PHP requirement, but more of a good convention to prevent something external from falling off the end of a string. If you are just working with it internally you don't need it. -RasmusThanks a lot Rasmus, I have just (wrongly) assumed that the convert_to_string function tries to search for the 0 termination character.It doesn't - but, PHP strings always require \0 to be the last character so you always need to allocate one more byte and put the \0 in there - even for binary data.