On Monday 29 April 2002 18:26, Dave MacRae wrote:
> For historic reasons, I have a file that contains a number of records in
> which the fields are seperated by the NULL character, i.e,
>
> field1\0field2\0field3\0field4
>
> I need to parse out the fields from this string.
>
> The string is read into the program using
>
> $buffer = fgets(...).
>
> This would be no problem in Perl or C but I cannot get this to work in PHP.
>
> I have tried using
>
> preg_split("/\0/", $buffer);
>
> But this fails. I've tried walking through the string but it seems that
> $buffer only has the content up to the first NULL character.
Try using fread() to get your file (it's binary safe). Then use:
explode(chr(0), $buffer);
to separate your fields.
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