note 107979 added to function.mdecrypt-generic

We found that sometimes the resulting padding is not null characters "\0" but rather one of several control characters. If you know your data is not supposed to have any trailing control characters "as we did" you can strip them like so. <?php $data = mdecrypt_generic( $cipher, $data ); // Strip trailing control-character padding $data = preg_replace( "/\p{Cc}*$/u", "", $data ); ?> ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 12.151.187.1 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mdecrypt-generic.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/107979 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107979 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/107979 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php