how do you convert a string to an integer array?

[David Lawson]

I know how to conver a string to an array of strings, but I need to convert an ascii string to an
array of integers (really unsigned chars). Eg,

$str ="ABC";

needs to convert to something like this:

$buf = array(0x41, 0x42, 0x43);

Anyone know how? I haven't been able to find a way.

David

[Daniel Tryba]

David Lawson <da**********@xdevnullx.com> wrote:

$str ="ABC";

needs to convert to something like this:

$buf = array(0x41, 0x42, 0x43);

Anyone know how? I haven't been able to find a way.

See the string functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php
and convert those values to hex, of use
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.bin2hex.php and some (regexp)
magic.

[Ewoud Dronkert]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:26:13 -0500, David Lawson wrote:

I know how to conver a string to an array of strings,
but I need to convert an ascii string to an
array of integers (really unsigned chars).

$s = 'ABC';
$a = array_map('ord', preg_split('//', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));

Or for PHP5:

$a = array_map('ord', str_split($s));

Gives:

$a => Array
(
[0] => 65
[1] => 66
[2] => 67
)

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[David Lawson]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:48:53 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <fi*******@lastname.net.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:26:13 -0500, David Lawson wrote:

I know how to conver a string to an array of strings,
but I need to convert an ascii string to an
array of integers (really unsigned chars).

$s = 'ABC';
$a = array_map('ord', preg_split('//', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));

Or for PHP5:

$a = array_map('ord', str_split($s));

Gives:

$a => Array
(
[0] => 65
[1] => 66
[2] => 67
)

thanks,
$a = array_map('ord', str_split($s));
did what I needed.

Now I have a binary (integer) array and need to write it to a file.

I've been experimenting with

pack, fwrite, and file_put_contents but can't get any of these to work.

Do I need to convert the (modified) integer array back to a binary string first?
I've tried pack():

$bstr = pack("C*", $buf2); // convert buf2 to a binary string
file_put_contents($this->tmpname, $bstr);

This only writes 1 byte to a file. The count of $buf2 is 256.

David

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:18:39 -0500, David Lawson <da**********@xdevnullx.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:48:53 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <fi*******@lastname.net.invalid> wrote:

$a = array_map('ord', str_split($s));

Gives:

$a => Array
(
[0] => 65
[1] => 66
[2] => 67
)

thanks,
$a = array_map('ord', str_split($s));
did what I needed.

Now I have a binary (integer) array and need to write it to a file.

Well, you have an array of integers. Not "unsigned chars" as you wanted
..I've been experimenting with

pack, fwrite, and file_put_contents but can't get any of these to work.

Do I need to convert the (modified) integer array back to a binary string first?
I've tried pack():

$bstr = pack("C*", $buf2); // convert buf2 to a binary string
file_put_contents($this->tmpname, $bstr);

This only writes 1 byte to a file. The count of $buf2 is 256.

Er, let's back up a step here. Unlesss I've missed some subtlety here, you
said:

$str ="ABC";

needs to convert to something like this:

$buf = array(0x41, 0x42, 0x43);

And you want to write that to a file. Well, just write "ABC". It's the same
thing. It sounds like you've gone full-circle from having a string, turning it
into an array of integer codes that each character is represented by, to
writing back those integers as bytes - when exactly the same effect is given by
just writing the string in the first place..?

In fact by going via ord() you're entering the world of character set
encodings; ord() only claims to handle ASCII which is 0-127. Although you did
mention ASCII originally so you're probably safe.

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