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Bug #6884 problem getting a double variable from binary file
Submitted: 2000-09-26 02:40 UTC Modified: 2000-10-25 14:03 UTC
From: heinrich at noiseconcept dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 4.0.2 OS: Win2k/98/Redhat6.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2000-09-26 02:40 UTC] heinrich at noiseconcept dot de
Hi!

Probably this isn't a true bug, bit I couldn't find ANY
one (tried Newsgroups/IRC/Doc's..) who could explain this
to me:

I'm reading a price list from a file in which there are
(beyond other stuff) Product name and price saved.
Extracting the Product name is no problem but the price
is saved as a 8byte-double variable. So I used:
$price=unpack("d",substr($contents,211,8));
But this results in absolutely strange values like
8.3...+E-311 and so on. My file is valid since I've also
programmed this using Borland Delphi. There I use
the command "move" to move the part of the memory where
the file buffer is saved directly to the address of a
double variable. There it works quite fine. So - what's
wrong? (Although I'm KNOW that it's an 8byte double I
tried with any other decoding method from unpack like float,
single and so on... Nothing worked..

Please contact me If you know anything about that, it's
quite important for me :-}

Tnx a lot! - bye!


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 [2000-10-18 06:37 UTC] stas@php.net
Failed to reproduce the behaviour. Could you please provide a binary string that is decoded incorrectly by unpack?
Also, note that unpack has different syntax than in perl (see the manual) so  doesn't do what you want, you should do $price=unpack("dvar",...) and use $price["var"] then.
 [2000-10-25 14:02 UTC] derick@php.net
User reported:

I found the error - was my mistake. Sorry!

(In fact it WAS a wrong offset but Delphi autocorrected this mistake of mine
so I thought the settings were correct)

tnx anyway - bye!

Greets - Max.


 [2000-10-25 14:03 UTC] derick@php.net
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