How to parse bytes from a binary file?

[heikkijoh]

I've done some code to parse a binary file. I open the file with fopen and the use fread to parse it byte by byte. My parsing stops when a byte with value 0x1A is encountered. When I read this byte with fread, the resulting string is "". In ASCII table 0x1A belongs to non-printing characters. Could that be the source of the problem?

How can I get the correct value to integer variable? I've tried to do

(int)fread($handle, 1)
intval(fread($handle, 1))
hexdec(fread($handle, 1))

but with no luck.

And yes, I've opened the file with "rb" option.

[Weedpacket]

Why not use [man]fgetc[/man]?

[man]intval[/man] is not what you want, either; that casts its argument into an integer type based on PHP's usual [url=file:///C:/olde/downloads/php/manual/language.types.type-juggling.html]type conversion[/url] rules. Try [man]sscanf[/man] or [man]unpack[/man], or [man]ord[/man] (which converts characters into their ASCII codes).

[heikkijoh]

Thanks, now it started working. ord() seemed the easiest wayt to do it.