binary-safe fget?

I understand that fget is not binary-safe before php version 4.3.3.
To me that means fget cannot read binary data (or clips it to 7 bits).
Is there another php function equiv. to fget that is binary safe. I
am not quite ready to upgrade to 4.3.3.

Thanks.

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steve wrote:

> I understand that fget is not binary-safe before php version 4.3.3.
> To me that means fget cannot read binary data (or clips it to 7 bits).
> Is there another php function equiv. to fget that is binary safe. I
> am not quite ready to upgrade to 4.3.3.

There is no function fget. fgets is not binary safe until version 4.3 (not
4.3.3). fgetc is binary safe. fread, which is referenced from fgets
documentation page on php.net, is binary safe. Also read the fopen docs if
you are on Windows.

On 10 Aug 2004 15:08:07 -0400, steve <UseLinkToEmail@dbForumz.com> wrote:

>I understand that fget is not binary-safe before php version 4.3.3.
>To me that means fget cannot read binary data (or clips it to 7 bits).
> Is there another php function equiv. to fget that is binary safe. I
>am not quite ready to upgrade to 4.3.3.

PHP doesn't have an fget function, do you want fgets (read line from file
pointer)?

If so you could make this from fread (read in chunks, scan for newline, return
line and save the rest or rewind the file pointer) or fgetc (read character by
character until newline, bound to be slower though).

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steve wrote:
> I understand that fget is not binary-safe before php version 4.3.3.
> To me that means fget cannot read binary data (or clips it to 7 bits).
> Is there another php function equiv. to fget that is binary safe. I
> am not quite ready to upgrade to 4.3.3.
>

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetc.php


JW

"Andy Hassall" wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2004 15:08:07 -0400, steve
> <UseLinkToEmail@dbForumz.com> wrote:
>
> >I understand that fget is not binary-safe before php version
> 4.3.3.
> >To me that means fget cannot read binary data (or clips it to 7
> bits).
> > Is there another php function equiv. to fget that is binary safe.
> I
> >am not quite ready to upgrade to 4.3.3.
>
> PHP doesn’t have an fget function, do you want fgets (read line
> from file
> pointer)?
>
> If so you could make this from fread (read in chunks, scan for
> newline, return
> line and save the rest or rewind the file pointer) or fgetc (read
> character by
> character until newline, bound to be slower though).
>

Thanks, Andy. I did mean fgets. Ok, you are right. I can use
fread.

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