note 17029 added to function.fread

Seems like the strings returned from fread always have the length "number of characters to read". Try this on your favourite file: clearstatcache (); $FileHandle = fopen ($FileNameAndPath, "rb"); $b = 0; while ($Block = fread ($FileHandle, 8192)) { $b += strlen ($Block); } print "file size: ".filesize ($FileNameAndPath)."<br>"; print "read: $b<br>"; fclose ($FileHandle); On my W2K the two numbers will differ, the number of bytes read always being a multiple of 8192. You can also look at the strlen of each block that is read - you'd expect the last one usually *not* to have a size of 8192, but it does. Is this to be considered a bug or a feature? Steve -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17029 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17029 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17029