On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:29, Mark Charette wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Martin Straka wrote:
> >
> > Is somewhere documented that everything after NULL (0x00 %00) character
> > is ignored for example in functions include, fopen etc?
> 
> Interestingly, no, it's not documented in the manual (at least I couldn't
> find any official documentation on NULL terminated strings as a definition
> when I searched through the official docs). However, strings in PHP follow
> the C convention of being NULL terminated.

Strings in PHP are binary safe and thus do not rely on null temrination.
You can see this via the following example:

<?
$foo = "supercalifragi...";
$foo{5} = chr( 0 );

echo $foo{4}."\n";
echo $foo{5}."\n";
echo $foo{6}."\n";


Cheers,
Rob.
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