Re: PHP-5.5 unpack change broke pecl/pear

From: Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:11:45 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP-5.5 unpack change broke pecl/pear
References: 1  Groups: php.internals 
Request: Send a blank email to [email protected] to get a copy of this message
This change does not break BC.

The "a" format in pack/unpack functions has not changed at all in 5.5. It
still does the same thing and it was not replaced by the new "Z" format
option, which I added. They do different things.

The "a" format strips null bytes from the string.

The new "Z" format in 5.5 truncates the string at the first null-byte,
returning everything prior to it.

pack/unpack functions should still be backwards-compatible with PHP < 5.5.


Thread (11 messages)

« previous php.internals (#64418) next »