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Bug #44644 strlen gives false result if the string have "\0"
Submitted: 2008-04-05 03:36 UTC Modified: 2008-04-05 10:40 UTC
From: zhangsilly at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-04-05 03:36 UTC] zhangsilly at gmail dot com 
Description:
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strlen seems return the bytes of the string used,not the length of the string.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$string = "\0\0\0\0\0\0";

echo strlen($string);

?>

Expected result:
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0

Actual result:
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6

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 [2008-04-05 10:40 UTC] derick@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

That is correct, PHP is binary safe.
 
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