note 97177 modified in function.unpack by danbrown

From: Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:34:26 +0000
Subject: note 97177 modified in function.unpack by danbrown
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Reading a text cell from an Excel spreadsheet returned a string with low-order embedded nulls: 0x4100 0x4200 etc. To remove the nulls, used <?php $strWithoutNulls = implode( '', explode( "\0", $strWithNulls ) ); ?> (unpack() didn't seem to help much here; needed chars back to re-constitute the string, not integers.) --was-- Reading a text cell from an Excel spreadsheet returned a string with low-order embedded nulls: 0x4100 0x4200 etc. To remove the nulls, used $strWithoutNulls = implode( '', explode( "\0", $strWithNulls ) ); (unpack() didn't seem to help much here; needed chars back to re-constitute the string, not integers.) http://php.net/manual/en/function.unpack.php

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