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Bug #39588 unpack("a*", "abc\0") does not work as expected
Submitted: 2006-11-22 14:09 UTC Modified: 2006-11-22 14:23 UTC
From: pprasse at actindo dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 4.4.4 OS: linux 2.6.10
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-11-22 14:09 UTC] pprasse at actindo dot de
Description:
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unpack( "a*", $string ) does not work as expected when last character of $string is "\0"


Reproduce code:
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<?php

$string = "abc\0";
$arr = unpack( "a*buf", $string );
printf( "strlen = %d\n", strlen($arr['buf']) );
printf( "hex dump:\t" );
for( $i=0; $i<strlen($arr['buf']); $i++ )
  printf( " %02x", ord($arr['buf']{$i}) );

printf( "\n" );

?>

Expected result:
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strlen = 4
hex dump:	 61 62 63 00


Actual result:
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strlen = 3
hex dump:	 61 62 63


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 [2006-11-22 14:23 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Expected behaviour.

$var = "str";
$packed = pack("a5", $var); // 5 bytes long NULL-padded string
var_dump(unpack("a*", $packed)); // the NULL-padding is removed to get the original data.
 [2012-02-10 09:11 UTC] su dot hang at yahoo dot com
is this also expected behavior?

<?php
$var = "str";
$packed = pack("a5", $var); // 5 bytes long NULL-padded string
var_dump(unpack("a5", $packed));

array(1) {
  [1]=>
  string(3) "str"
}
 
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