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
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