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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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