On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Marco Bambini wrote: > > > > > Thanks 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. > > 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.
Right, but if you store it as a string in a ZVAL you do, otherwise the engine can warn you about it. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
